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Educational Delusions?: Why Choice Can Deepen Inequality and How to Make Schools Fair
Gary Orfield
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Description for Educational Delusions?: Why Choice Can Deepen Inequality and How to Make Schools Fair
Hardback. Brings civil rights back into the center of the debate and tries to move from doctrine to empirical research in exploring the many forms of choice and their very different consequences for equity in US schools. Num Pages: 330 pages, 9 line illustrations, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNF; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 472.
The first major battle over school choice came out of struggles over equalizing and integrating schools in the civil rights era, when it became apparent that choice could be either a serious barrier or a significant tool for reaching these goals. The second large and continuing movement for choice was part of the very different anti-government, individualistic, market-based movement of a more conservative period in which many of the lessons of that earlier period were forgotten, though choice was once again presented as the answer to racial inequality. This book brings civil rights back into the center of the debate ... Read more
The first major battle over school choice came out of struggles over equalizing and integrating schools in the civil rights era, when it became apparent that choice could be either a serious barrier or a significant tool for reaching these goals. The second large and continuing movement for choice was part of the very different anti-government, individualistic, market-based movement of a more conservative period in which many of the lessons of that earlier period were forgotten, though choice was once again presented as the answer to racial inequality. This book brings civil rights back into the center of the debate ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
Number of Pages
330
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520274730
SKU
V9780520274730
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About Gary Orfield
Gary Orfield is Professor of Education, Law, Political Science and Urban Planning at UCLA. He co-founded and directed The Harvard Civil Rights and has brought this project to UCLA. Orfield is a leader in the field of civil rights, education policy, urban policy and minority opportunity. Erica Frankenberg is an assistant professor in the Department of ... Read more
Reviews for Educational Delusions?: Why Choice Can Deepen Inequality and How to Make Schools Fair
"An important book presenting a powerful rejection of the notion that school choice is a path to improving schools... Highly recommended."
S. H. Minner Choice
S. H. Minner Choice