Excluded by Choice: Urban Students with Disabilities in the Education Marketplace

ISBN-13: 9780807764015 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020

Federico R. Waitoller; Alfredo J. Artiles; Alfredo J. Artiles

Spis treści

• Foreword: Hope Against the Perverse Ripples of Equality Reforms
• Alfredo J. Artiles—ix
• Acknowledgments—xiii
• 1. Introduction—1
• Excluded by Choice: Entering the Great American Education Debate—5
• Is This a Book Against Charter Schools?—11
• A Book About Disability, Race, Education, and Urban Space: Outline of the Book—13
• 2. Choosing Schools? Stories of Desperation—18
• Searching for Safety—21
• Special Education Services: Austerity Measures and Segregation—34
• Academics—42
• Perceiving the Disinvestment and Destabilization of Public Schools—45
• 3. Choosing Schools? Stories of Optimistic Attachments—53
• Parents' Perceptions of Safety in Charter Schools—59
• Perceptions of Charter Schools as Academically Rigorous—62
• The Perception of Charter Schools as Well-Resourced Educational Spaces—64
• 4. The Cruelty of Optimistic Attachments: Pushout Practices in Charter Schools—69
• Discipline and Academic Practices—71
• Delay and Deny Special Education Services—78
• Lack of Trained Teachers—84
• Suggesting to "Choose" Another School: "Think of What Is Best for Your Child"—87
• Aren't These Practices a Violation of Federal Law?—91
• 5. Sustaining Hopes of "Inclusion": Fight or Flee—94
• Complaining to the Charter Administration: "Becoming a Pest"—95
• he Role of the School District—98
• Working with Lawyers—103
• 6. The Consequences—112
• Being Pushed Out—112
• Deteriorating Students' Well-Being—116
• Impact on Parents' Well-Being—127
• 7. Fantasies of Inclusion in the Education MarketSpace: Theoretical Contributions—129
• Parental Choice in the Education MarketSpace—129
• Fantasies of Inclusion—138
• The New Racial Inequities in Special Education—146
• 8. Toward an Intersectional and Radical Inclusive Education: Recommendations—150
• Intersectional Inclusive Education Principles—151
• Recommendations for Practice—154
• Recommendations for Policy—160
• Recommendations for Research—164
• Conclusion—166
• Appendix: Methods—168
• Researcher Positionality—168
• Recruitment of Participants—169
• Data Collection—170
• Data Analysis—172
• Limitations of the Study—174
• References—176
• Index—192
• About the Author