Charter schools, race, and urban space : where the market meets grassroots resistance /
"Charter schools have been promoted as an equitable and innovative solution to the problems plaguing urban schools. Advocates claim that charter schools benefit working-class students of color by offering them access to a 'portfolio' of school choices. In Charter Schools, Race, and Ur...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group,
2015.
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| Series: | Critical educator.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Black Education in the South: Critical Race Reflections on the Historic Policy Landscape
- 2. The Assault on Black Children by Education Entrepreneurs: Charter Schools, Whiteness, and Accumulation by Dispossession
- 3. Keeping King Elementary School on the Map: Racial Resistance and the Politics of Place in the Lower 9th Ward
- 4. The Closing of Douglass High School: Counterstories on the Master's Plan for Reconstruction
- 5. The Culture of the Education Market: Teach for America, Union Busting, and the Displacement of Black Veteran Teachers
- 6. New Orleans: A Guide for Cities or a Warning for Communities? Lessons Learned from the Bottom-Up (with Urban South Grassroots Research Collective)