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Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement

Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement

Suitts, Steve

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General EducationSocial Movements

Publisher Price: $26.95

ISBN10: 1588384209
ISBN13: 9781588384201
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Published: Feb 4 2020
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
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 peers. In Overturning Brown, Steve Suitts examines the parallels between de facto segregationist policies and the modern school choice movement to expose the dangers lying behind the so-called civil rights policies of Betsy DeVos and the education privatization lobbies. Economic and educational disparity has expanded exponentially in the years following Brown v. Board, and post-Jim Crow discriminatory policies drive inequality and poverty today. It is only through recognizing the smoke and mirrors that Suitts deftly exposes in Overturning Brown that we understand the risk America's underprivileged youth face with school voucher programs and as public funds are funneled into charter schools and predominately white and wealthy private schools.

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