How the Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice [Hardcover ed.] 0525533737, 9780525533733

An inside look at America's most controversial charter schools, and the moral and political questions around public

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English Pages 384 Year 2019

How the Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice [Hardcover ed.]
0525533737, 9780525533733

How race and racism shape middle-class families’ decisions to homeschool their children While families of color make up

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How the other half lives interrogates contemporary social and spatial inequalities in housing, urban design, place-makin

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In 1981, when Raymond Abbott was a twelve-year-old sixth-grader in Camden, New Jersey, poor city school districts like h

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Guidebook for audio lectures

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How New York’s Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing America New York City's Lower East Side, long viewed a

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Hess argues that in the current disputes over education reform, virtually all vocal parties-- from teachers' unions

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How the Other Half Works solves the riddle of America's contemporary immigration puzzle: why an increasingly high-t

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Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared school voucher programs constitutional, the many unanswered questions conce

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Evidence shows that the increasing privatization of K–12 education siphons resources away from public schools, resulting

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