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Challenging the popular perception that the free market can objectively ameliorate inequality and markedly improve student academic achievement, this book examines the overly positivistic rhetoric surrounding charter schools. Taking a multifocal approach, this book examines how charter schools reproduce inequality in public education. By linking charter schools to broader social issues and political economic factors, such as neoliberalism, race, and class, "The Charter School Solution" presents a more complete and nuanced assessment of charter schools in the context of the American public education system. Chapters in the book: (1) Introduction: The Charter School Solution: Distinguishing Fact from Rhetoric (Jamel K. Donnor and Tara L. Affolter); (2) Chartering Charade in Washington State: The Anti-Democratic Politics of the Charter School Movement and the Removal of the Public from Public Education (Wayne Au); (3) Democracy, Charter Schools, and the Politics of Choice (Eleni Schirmer and Michael W. Apple); (4) Charter Schools, Unjust Labor Practices, and the Jeopardization of Teaching as a Profession (Sarah Stitzelein and Barrett Smith); (5) Consequence of Unionization: Charter Sc
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- Author
- Tara L. Affolter; Jamel K. Donnor
- Publisher
- Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis Group LLC, 7625 Empire Drive, Florence, KY 41042. Tel: 800-634-7064; Fax: 800-248-4724; Web site: http://www.routledge.com/books/series/SE0393
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781138600256
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Education
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