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No Ordinary Success: The Boundaries Of School Reform, James Forman Jr.
No Ordinary Success: The Boundaries Of School Reform, James Forman Jr.
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How much can schools improve the life prospects of children growing up in poor neighborhoods? This question has divided the education community since at least the 1960s, when a group of researchers led by James Coleman attempted to quantify the extent to which segregation hurt black children. Coleman concluded that differences in family background had a greater impact on student achievement than did differences in school quality. Almost 40 years later, former New York Times education columnist Richard Rothstein revisited the question. In a series of lectures at Columbia University’s Teachers College that became the book Class and Schools (2004), …
The Rise And Fall Of School Vouchers: A Story Of Religion, Race, And Politics, James Forman Jr.
The Rise And Fall Of School Vouchers: A Story Of Religion, Race, And Politics, James Forman Jr.
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This Article examines why school vouchers have failed to garner the support that so many assumed would follow the Court's decision in Zelman. The explanation, I suggest, concerns religion, race, and politics. The original rationale for vouchers was what I call the "values claim"-vouchers protected the right of parents to send their child to a school that reinforced their values. Originally promoted by Catholics, the values claim was adopted by evangelical Christians concerned about the secularization of public schools after the 1960s. Although the values claim was central for most of the history of the voucher movement, in the decade …
Who Is The Child Left Behind? The Racial Meaning Of The New School Reform, Charles R. Lawrence Iii
Who Is The Child Left Behind? The Racial Meaning Of The New School Reform, Charles R. Lawrence Iii
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Segregated schools achieve their racist purpose by building a wall between poor black and brown children and those of us with privilege, influence, and power. It does not matter that this wall is not built pursuant to the mandate of law or that it is created by the cumulative effect of our private choices. It is segregation nonetheless and it encourages us to hoard our wealth on one side of the wall while children on the other side are left with little. The genius of segregation as a tool of oppression is in the signal it sends to the oppressor …