Kristen L Buras

Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space

Where the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance

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Produktbeschreibung

In Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space, Kristen Buras maps federal, state, and local policy networks to show how the New Orleans' education landscape has been reshaped by a strategic venture to privatize public education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780415660501
• ISBN-10: 0415660505
• Artikelnr.: 36126494

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1
Black Education in the South:
Critical Race Reflections on the Historic Policy Landscape
Chapter 2
The Assault on Black Children by Education Entrepreneurs:
Charter Schools, Whiteness, and Accumulation by Dispossession
Chapter 3
Keeping King Elementary School on the Map:
Racial Resistance and the Politics of Place in the Lower 9th Ward
Chapter 4
The Closing of Douglass High School:
Counterstories on the Master's Plan for Reconstruction
Chapter 5
The Culture of the Education Market:
Teach for America, Union Busting, and the Displacement of Black Veteran
Teachers
Chapter 6
New Orleans-A Guide for Cities or a Warning for Communities?
Lessons Learned from the Bottom-Up
(with Urban South Grassroots Research Collective)