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Zusatztext "An important book presenting a powerful rejection of the notion that school choice is a path to improving schools. . . . Highly recommended." Informationen zum Autor Gary Orfield is Professor of Education! Law! Political Science and Urban Planning at UCLA. He co-founded and directed The Harvard Civil Rights and has brought this project to UCLA. Orfield is a leader in the field of civil rights! education policy! urban policy and minority opportunity. Erica Frankenberg is an assistant professor in the Department of Education Policy Studies at Pennsylvania State University and formerly worked at the Civil Rights Project. She is the co-editor of several recent books on K-12 school integration policies. Klappentext "Orfield and Frankenberg have put together an extraordinary book that ought to be required reading for anyone who cares about our children and the public schools that serve them. If it were only for the powerful analysis of the dangerous charter school phenomenon! Educational Delusions? would be important and eye-opening. But there is also Frankenberg's dazzling assessment of the carefully designed integration plan carried out in Berkeley! the bitter-sweet narratives on Louisville and Hartford! plus Orfield's brilliant overview on choice and civil rights and the perils of forgetting history-these are just a handful of examples of the sweep and scope of this essential volume. I hope it will be widely read! and far beyond the walls of academia." Jonathan Kozol! author of Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America "An important book presenting a powerful rejection of the notion that school choice is a path to improving schools. . . . Highly recommended."--S. H. Minner"Choice" (06/01/2013) Zusammenfassung Brings civil rights back into the center of the debate and tries to move from doctrine to empirical research in exploring the many forms of choice and their very different consequences for equity in US schools....
