Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space - Where the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance

List of contents

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)

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kristen L. Buras, Kristen L. (Georgia State University Buras, Buras Kristen L.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.07.2014
• EAN: 9780415660501
• ISBN: 978-0-415-66050-1
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / General, Sociology, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Interdisciplinary studies, Educational strategies & policy, Moral and social purpose of education, Urban communities, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy