Jon Hale

The Choice We Face (eBook, ePUB)

How Segregation, Race, and Power Have Shaped America's Most Controversial Education Reform Movement

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive history of school choice in the US, from its birth in the 1950s as the most effective weapon to oppose integration to its lasting impact in reshaping the public education system today. Most Americans today see school choice as their inalienable right. In The Choice We Face, scholar Jon Hale reveals what most fail to see: school choice is grounded in a complex history of race, exclusion, and inequality. Through evaluating historic and contemporary education policies, Hale demonstrates how reframing the way we see school choice represents an opportunity to evolve from complicity to action. The idea of school choice, which emerged in the 1950s during the civil rights movement, was disguised by American rhetoric as a symbol of freedom and individualism. Shaped by the ideas of conservative economist Milton Friedman, the school choice movement was a weapon used to oppose integration and maintain racist and classist inequalities. Still supported by Democrats and Republicans alike, this policy continues to shape American education in nuanced ways, Hale shows-from the expansion of for-profit charter schools and civil rights-based reform efforts to the appointment of Betsy DeVos. Exposing the origins of a movement that continues to privilege middle- to upper-class whites while depleting the resources for students left behind, The Choice We Face is a bold, definitive new history that promises to challenge long-held assumptions on education and redefines our moment as an opportunity to save it-a choice we will not have for much longer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807087503
• Artikelnr.: 59460837

Autorenporträt

Jon N. Hale is a professor of educational history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an advocate for quality public education. Hale's research in education has been published in The Atlantic, CNN.com, Education Week, the American Scholar, and the African American Intellectual History Series. His books include The Freedom Schools and To Write in the Light of Freedom.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
The Choice We Face
CHAPTER ONE
The “Divine Right” and our Freedom of Choice in Education
CHAPTER TWO
Milton Friedman and the Problems with Choice in Chicago
CHAPTER THREE
Racism by Yet Another Name: Busing, White Resistance, and the Foundations
for a National School Choice Model
CHAPTER FOUR
Federal Support of the School Choice Movement
CHAPTER FIVE
The School Choice Menu
CHAPTER SIX
Race and a Civil Rights Claim to School Choice
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Sinking Ship of Public Education and the Failure of Choice
CHAPTER EIGHT
Resisting School Choice Through Counternarrative and Coalitions
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index