Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement - Hardcover
by Steve Suitts
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Language:EnglishPublisher:NewSouth BooksISBN-13:9781588384201ISBN-10:1588384209UPC:9781588384201Book Category:Education, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Schools, History, Civil RightsBook Topic:TypesSize:8.10 x 5.70 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC37HE9080
Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement
School choice, largely touted as a system that would ensure underprivileged youth have an equal opportunity in education, has grown in popularity in the past fifteen years. The rhetoric of school choice, however, resembles that of segregationists following Brown v. Board, who closed public schools and funded private institutions to block African American students from integrating with their white...
Language:EnglishPublisher:NewSouth BooksISBN-13:9781588384201ISBN-10:1588384209UPC:9781588384201Book Category:Education, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Schools, History, Civil RightsBook Topic:TypesSize:8.10 x 5.70 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC37HE9080
STEVE SUITTS is an adjunct at the Institute for Liberal Arts of Emory University and has been chief strategist for Better Schools Better Jobs, a Mississippi-based education advocacy project of the New Venture Fund. Suitts began his career as a staff member of the Selma Project. He was founding director of the Alabama Civil Liberties Union; the executive director of the Southern Regional Council;...
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