Cutting school : privatization, segregation, and the end of public education /

"Public schools are among America's greatest achievements in modern history, yet from the earliest days of tax-supported education -- today a sector with an estimated budget of over half a billion dollars -- there have been intractable tensions tied to race and poverty. Now, in an era char...

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Main Author: Rooks, Noliwe, 1963- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : The New Press, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. The segrenomics of American education
  • Rich college students, poor public schools
  • White philanthropy, black education
  • Brown children, white retribution
  • How the North wasn't won
  • Education dreams and virtual nightmares
  • Stealing school
  • The age of resistance
  • Coda: Trickle-up education.