Cutting school : privatization, segregation, and the end of public education /
"Public schools are among America's greatest achievements in modern history, yet from the earliest days of tax-supported education -- today a sector with an estimated budget of over half a billion dollars -- there have been intractable tensions tied to race and poverty. Now, in an era char...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
The New Press,
2017.
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| Summary: | "Public schools are among America's greatest achievements in modern history, yet from the earliest days of tax-supported education -- today a sector with an estimated budget of over half a billion dollars -- there have been intractable tensions tied to race and poverty. Now, in an era characterized by levels of school segregation the country has not seen since the mid-twentieth century, cultural critic and American studies professor Noliwe Rooks provides a trenchant analysis of our separate and unequal schools and argues that profiting from our nation's failure to provide a high-quality education to all children has become a very big business." -- Amazon.com. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 272 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781620972489 1620972484 |