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Cutting School

Cutting School

Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education

by Noliwe M. Rooks
Hardback
Publication Date: 19/10/2017

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2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction) Finalist

A timely indictment of the corporate takeover of education and the privatization-and profitability-of separate and unequal schools, published at a critical time in the dismantling of public education in America

puts our schools at the center of the fight for a new commons."
This Changes Everything

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 characterized by levels of school segregation the country has not seen since the mid-twentieth century, cultural critic and American studies professor Noliwe Rooks provides a trenchant analysis of our separate and unequal schools and argues that profiting from our nation's failure to provide a high-quality education to all children has become a very big business.

up to the current controversies around school choice, teacher quality, the school-to-prison pipeline, and more, to elucidate the course we are on today: the wholesale privatization of our schools. Rooks's incisive critique breaks down the fraught landscape of "segrenomics," showing how experimental solutions to the so-called achievement gaps-including charters, vouchers, and cyber schools-rely on, profit from, and ultimately exacerbate disturbingly high levels of racial and economic segregation under the guise of providing equal opportunity.

Rooks chronicles the making and unmaking of public education and the disastrous impact of funneling public dollars to private for-profit and nonprofit operations. As the infrastructure crumbles, a number of major U.S. cities are poised to permanently dismantle their public school systems-the very foundation of our multicultural democracy. Yet Rooks finds hope and promise in the inspired individuals and powerful movements fighting to save urban schools.

is a cri de coeur for all of us to resist educational apartheid in America.
ISBN:
9781620972489
9781620972489
Category:
Education
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
19-10-2017
Publisher:
The New Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
217x146mm

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