Educational Delusions?: Why Choice Can Deepen Inequality and How to Make Schools

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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. This title brings civil rights back into the center of the debate.

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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 and tries to move from doctrine to empirical research in exploring the many forms of choice and their very different consequences for equity in U.S. schools. Leading researchers conclude that although helping minority children remains a central justification for choice proponents, ignoring the essential civil rights dimensions of choice plans risks compounding rather than remedying racial inequality.

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"Orfield and Frankenberg have put together an extraordinary book that ought to be required reading for anyone who cares about our children and the public schools that serve them. If it were only for the powerful analysis of the dangerous charter school phenomenon, Educational Delusions? would be important and eye-opening. But there is also Frankenberg's dazzling assessment of the carefully designed integration plan carried out in Berkeley, the bitter-sweet narratives on Louisville and Hartford, plus Orfield's brilliant overview on choice and civil rights and the perils of forgetting history--these are just a handful of examples of the sweep and scope of this essential volume. I hope it will be widely read, and far beyond the walls of academia." Jonathan Kozol, author of Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America

Author Biography

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 Education Policy Studies at Pennsylvania State University and formerly worked at the Civil Rights Project. She is the co-editor of several recent books on K-12 school integration policies.

Review

"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

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"An important book presenting a powerful rejection of the notion that school choice is a path to improving schools. . . . Highly recommended."

Details ISBN0520274741 Author Erica Frankenberg Short Title EDUCATIONAL DELUSIONS Publisher University of California Press Language English ISBN-10 0520274741 ISBN-13 9780520274747 Media Book Format Paperback Residence MA, US Year 2013 Publication Date 2013-01-25 Imprint University of California Press Subtitle Why Choice Can Deepen Inequality and How to Make Schools Fair Place of Publication Berkerley Country of Publication United States Illustrations 9 line illustrations, 11 tables UK Release Date 2013-01-25 AU Release Date 2013-01-25 NZ Release Date 2013-01-25 US Release Date 2013-01-25 Pages 330 DEWEY 371.0011 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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