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Author
Publisher
Beaufort Books
Pub. Date
c2020
Language
English
Description
"Across the country, many parents today have more choices for their children's education than ever before. If you are starting the process of finding your child's first school-or if you want to choose a new learning environment-The School Choice Roadmap is for you. This first-of-its-kind book offers a practical, jargon-free overview of school choice policies, from public school open enrollment to private school scholarships and more. It breaks down...
Publisher
Cato Institute
Pub. Date
c2020
Language
English
Description
"So many myths stand in the way of expanding educational freedom to all Americans: choice drains money from public schools; choice segregates; choice undermines democracy; and so on. In School Choice Myths, education experts Corey A. DeAngelis and Neal P. McCluskey bring clear logic and overwhelming evidence to bear against all the major anti school-choice myths, giving readers what they need to see though them and understand how even well-intentioned...
4) Reign of error: the hoax of the privatization movement and the danger to America's public schools
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"From the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, "whistleblower extraordinaire" (The Wall Street Journal), one of the foremost authorities on education and the history of education in the United States, author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System; The Language Police ("Impassioned . . . Fiercely argued . . . Every bit as alarming as it is illuminating" --The New York Times); and the now-classic Great School...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
If free market advocates had total control over education policy, would the shared public system of education collapse? Would school choice revitalize schooling with its innovative force? With proliferating charters and voucher schemes, would the United States finally make a dramatic break with its past and expand parental choice? That's not only the wrong question--it's the wrong premise, argue philosopher Sigal R. Ben-Porath and historian Michael...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the time Courtney E. Martin strapped her daughter, Maya, to her chest for long walks, she was curious about Emerson Elementary, a public school down the street from her Oakland home. She learned that White families in their gentrifying neighborhood largely avoided the majority-Black, poorly-rated school. As she began asking why, a journey of a thousand moral miles began. Learning in Public is the story, not just Courtney's journey, but a whole...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple--yet difficult--truth about how we can create actual change in public schools.
Author
Series
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"What is at stake when some American children go to school hungry and others go to school in $1,000 Bugaboo strollers? Class War argues that under free-market capitalism, life paths prescribed by class but framed as parental choices--public or private, gifted & talented, general or special education--segregate American children from birth through adolescence, and into adulthood, as never before. In an age of austerity, an elite class of corporate...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Most Americans today see school choice as their inalienable right, yet we know shockingly little about this idea and how it has reshaped the substance and sustainability of public education in America. Scholar Jon Hale reveals what most fail to see: school choice is grounded in a complex history of race, exclusion, and inequality.
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