Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space: Where the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance

ISBN-13: 9780415660501 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 230 str.

Kristen Buras

Opis

Charter schools have been promoted as an equitable solution to problems plaguing urban schools across the US. Through educational markets, advocates of the system claim that working-class students of colour have access to a 'portfolio' of promising schools. Here, Buras presents a different account. Her case study of New Orleans - where veteran teachers were fired en masse and the nation's first all-charter school district is emerging - shows that such nationwide reform is less about the needs of racially oppressed communities and more about the production of an urban space economy in which white entrepreneurs capitalize on black children and neighbourhoods by building and managing charter schools.

O autorze

Kristen Buras is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University. She is the author of Rightist Multiculturalism and coeditor of The Subaltern Speak. She is also cofounder and director of Urban South Grassroots Research Collective for Public Education.