Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education
Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education
Rooks, Noliwe
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Publishers Group West
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Genre: [Education]
 
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Catalog Number: #6634638
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Publishers Group West
Copyright Date: 2020
Edition Date: 2020 Release Date: 03/03/20
Pages: xv, 272 pages
ISBN: 1-620-97598-X
ISBN 13: 978-1-620-97598-5
Dewey: 379.1
Dimensions: 22 cm.
Subject Heading:
Privatization in education. United States.
Segregation in education. United States.
Public schools. United States.
Language: English
Bibliography Index/Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253) and index.
Reading Level: 7.0
Interest Level: 9+

Dr. Noliwe Rooks has given a name to a devastating phenomenon gripping the movement to "reform" public school education: segrenomics. This apt framework illuminates not only the history of the campaign to privatize and deregulate American public schools, but also explains who wins, who loses, and how the forces claiming to fight for the best interest of our nation's children have left the schools they claim to serve underfunded, underresourced, and unequal. Cutting School is a "poignant" critique that "urges greater criticism and thought-fulness about education reform in the 21st century" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Now in paperback with a new foreword by Diane Ravitch, this must-read expose is a bold contribution to the mounting activism and grassroots efforts to fight for equity and justice in America's public schools. Book jacket.

Introduction. The segrenomics of American education
Rich college students, poor public schools
White philanthropy, black education
Brown children, white retribution
How the North wasn't won
Education dreams and virtual nightmares
Stealing school
The age of resistance
Coda: Trickle-up education.
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