Description
Product ID: | 9781541675131 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Charter Schools and Their Enemies |
Authors: | Author: Thomas Sowell |
Page Count: | 288 |
Subjects: | Social discrimination and social justice, Social discrimination & inequality, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Educational strategies and policy, Schools and pre-schools, Centrist democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Macroeconomics, Business studies: general, Education law, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Educational strategies & policy, Schools, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Macroeconomics, Business studies: general, Education & the law |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A leading conservative intellectual defends charter schools against the teachers' unions, politicians and liberal educators who threaten to dismantle their success As public schools in low income areas fell into disrepair and failed to meet the needs of disadvantaged and minority students, charter schools offered an alternative. These schools were born out of the idea that low income families should be allowed to choose where their children went to school, just the same as high income families. If the public school in the community was unsatisfactory, shouldn''t they be allowed to seek out an alternative? The alternatives are surprisingly effective. Charter schools located in low income black and Latinx communities achieve results surpassing both traditional public schools in their areas, and also, in many cases, public schools in more affluent neighbourhoods. In Charter Schools and Their Enemies, celebrated conservative intellectual Thomas Sowell explores the surprising success of this model and the surprising backlash that threatens to dismantle it. |
Imprint Name: | Basic Books |
Publisher Name: | Basic Books |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-10-15 |