Race, schools, & hope
Subtitle: African Americans and school choice after Brown
By: Lisa M. Stulberg.
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780807748534; 9780807748527
Subjects: West Oakland Community School; School choice -- Political aspects -- United States; African Americans -- Education
Other titles: Race, schools, and hope
Description: "This provocative book helps us to make sense of why and how African Americans participate in and lead school-choice reforms. The author argues that regardless of the success or failure of these reforms, they represent an important political phenomenon in American schooling and in African American history and politics. The first section of the book focuses on African American school choice in the post-Brown period, examining how these reforms became a response to desegregation politics and policies. The second section focuses on a charter school in Oakland, California, that the author helped to found at a time when Oakland's public schools were severely underserving African American students"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-205) and index.