New Book: Emancipatory Promise of Charter Schools
Posted by on February 18, 2005
[posted from Public Education Network newsblast]
THE EMANCIPATORY PROMISE OF CHARTER SCHOOLS
“Progressives who deal with American education on the grassroots level have long awaited an intelligent, persuasive, and visionary defense of school choice,” writes Herbert Gintis. A new book edited by Eric Rofes and Lisa M. Stulberg brings together scholars who both study and actively participate in school choice reform and charge them to be “bold in their questioning and assertive in their ambivalence” about this complex, controversial public issue and to include issues that are underexamined in the school literature, such as the impact of school choice on race and class politics and inequalities. The editors argue that charter schools are playing a powerful role in reviving participation in public education, expanding opportunities for progressive methods in public school classrooms, and generating new energy for community-based, community-controlled school initiatives.
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