The emancipatory promise of charter schools : toward a progressive politics of school choice / edited by Eric Rofes and Lisa M. Stulberg ; foreword by Herbert Gintis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rofes, Eric E., 1954-2006.

Stulberg, Lisa M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Charter schools--Political aspects--United States.

Charter schools.

School choice--Political aspects--United States.

School choice.

Educational equalization--United States.

Educational equalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.

Summary:

This book opens up a critical conversation among progressive educators of various generations, races, perspectives, and social locations concerning one specific school reform initiative—charter schools. Eric Rofes and Lisa M. Stulberg bring 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 own 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. The result is a groundbreaking volume that pushes boundaries, questions assumptions, and rocks foundations of progressive thought.

Contents:

""THE EMANCIPATORY PROMISE OF CHARTER SCHOOLS""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. What History Offers Progressive Choice Scholarship""; ""Part I: Progressive Charter Schooling in Practice""; ""2. Fulfilling the Hope of Brown v. Board of Education through Charter Schools""; ""3. Back to the Future: Ethnocentric Charter Schools in Hawai�i""; ""4. Native American Charter Schools: Culture, Language, and Self-Determination""; ""5. Independent Black Schools and the Charter Movement""; ""6. Voices of Progressive Charter School Educators""

""Part II: Frameworks for Progressive School Choice Analysis""""7. The Charter School Movement: Complementing or Competing with Public Education?""; ""8. School Choice through a Foucauldian Lens: Disrupting the Left�s Oppositional Stance""; ""9. Charter Schools as the Counterpublics of Disenfranchised Communities: Pedagogy of Resistance or False Consciousness?""; ""Conclusion: Toward a Progressive Politics of School Choice""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C ""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""

""U""""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791484326

0791484327

OCLC:

923408419