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.
Tabla de materias
Foreword
Herbert Gintis
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Eric Rofes and Lisa M. Stulberg
1. What History Offers Progressive Choice Scholarship
Lisa M. Stulberg
PART I: Progressive Charter Schooling in Practice
2. Fulfilling the Hope of Brown v. Board of Education through Charter Schools
John B. King Jr.
3. Back to the Future: Ethnocentric Charter Schools in Hawai’i
Nina K. Buchanan and Robert A. Fox
4. Native American Charter Schools: Culture, Language, and Self-Determination
Mary Jiron Belgarde
5. Independent Black Schools and the Charter Movement
Patty Yancey
6. Voices of Progressive Charter School Educators
Melissa Steel King
PART II: Frameworks for Progressive School Choice Analysis
7. The Charter School Movement: Complementing or Competing with Public Education?
Alex Medler
8. School Choice through a Foucauldian Lens: Disrupting the Left’s Oppositional Stance
Stacy Smith
9. Charter Schools as the Counterpublics of Disenfranchised Communities: Pedagogy of Resistance or False Consciousness?
Eric Rofes
Conclusion: Toward a Progressive Politics of School Choice
Eric Rofes and Lisa M. Stulberg
Contributors
Index
Sobre el autor
Eric Rofes is Associate Professor of Education at Humboldt State University.
Lisa M. Stulberg is Assistant Professor of Educational Sociology at New York University.
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