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Education Reform As Moral Disengagement: The Racist Subtext Of The State Takeover Of Little Rock School District, Davis Clement
Education Reform As Moral Disengagement: The Racist Subtext Of The State Takeover Of Little Rock School District, Davis Clement
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Public support for market-based education reforms persists despite evidence that these reforms exacerbate the educational marginalization of Black and Brown students. Even among Democrats and ostensibly equity-minded policy actors, support for reforms like charter schools is widespread. How do people come to support racially stratifying policies despite their supposed commitment to ethic of social justice? The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the theories of unconscious racism (Lawrence, 1995a) and moral disengagement (Bandura, 1999) in the state takeover of a majority Black school district by a majority white state government. Methods included a critical race analysis …