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

"It is the first book examining the experiences of Black and Latinx students with disabilities and their families with market-driven educational policies. It offers a unique theoretical contribution examining the relationship between disability, race, urban space, and market-driven educational policies. It uses powerful and emotional narratives that unveil the collateral damages of market-driven policies. It explains how Black and Latinx parents of students with disabilities experience and resist pushout practices in charter schools. It identifies the consequences of pushout practices in charter schools that are more severe that forcing parents to move to another school"--

About the author

Federico R. Waitoller is an associate professor in the department of special education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2023 he received the AERA Special and Inclusive Education SIG Distinguished Researcher Award.

Summary

Through powerful narratives of parents of Black and Latinx students with disabilities, this book provides a unique look at the relationship between disability, race, urban space, and market-driven educational policies, and offers significant insights into complex forms of educational exclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Alfredo J. Artiles, Federico R Waitoller, Federico R. Waitoller
• Assisted by: Alfredo J Artiles (Editor), Alfredo J. Artiles (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780807764015
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-6401-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Disability, Culture, and Equit; Disability, Culture, and Equity Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system