Cutting school
Subtitle: privatization, segregation, and the end of public education
By: Noliwe Rooks
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781620972496
Subjects: Privatization in education; Segregation in education; Public schools; EDUCATION; Administration; General; Educational Policy & Reform
Description: "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."--Amazon.com
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The segrenomics of American education; title: Rich college students, poor public schools; title: White philanthropy, black education; title: Brown children, white retribution; title: How the North wasn't won; title: Education dreams and virtual nightmares; title: Stealing school; title: The age of resistance; title: Coda: Trickle-up education.