Educational Delusions?: Why Choice Can Deepen Inequality and How to Make Schools Fair
The first major battle over school choice came out of struggles over equalizing and integrating schools in the civil rights era, when it became apparent that choice could be either a serious barrier or a significant tool for reaching these goals. The second large and continuing movement for choice was part of the very different anti—government, individualistic, market—based movement of a more conservative period in which many of the lessons of that earlier period were forgotten, though choice was once again presented as the answer to racial inequality. This book brings civil rights back into the center of the debate and tries to move from doctrine to empirical research in exploring the many forms of choice and their very different consequences for equity in U.S. schools. Leading researchers conclude that although helping minority children remains a central justification for choice proponents, ignoring the essential civil rights dimensions of choice plans risks compounding rather than remedying racial inequality.
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Educational Delusions?: Why Choice Can Deepen Inequality and How to Make Schools Fair
The first major battle over school choice came out of struggles over equalizing and integrating schools in the civil rights era, when it became apparent that choice could be either a serious barrier or a significant tool for reaching these goals. The second large and continuing movement for choice was part of the very different anti—government, individualistic, market—based movement of a more conservative period in which many of the lessons of that earlier period were forgotten, though choice was once again presented as the answer to racial inequality. This book brings civil rights back into the center of the debate and tries to move from doctrine to empirical research in exploring the many forms of choice and their very different consequences for equity in U.S. schools. Leading researchers conclude that although helping minority children remains a central justification for choice proponents, ignoring the essential civil rights dimensions of choice plans risks compounding rather than remedying racial inequality.
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Educational Delusions?: Why Choice Can Deepen Inequality and How to Make Schools Fair

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Overview

The first major battle over school choice came out of struggles over equalizing and integrating schools in the civil rights era, when it became apparent that choice could be either a serious barrier or a significant tool for reaching these goals. The second large and continuing movement for choice was part of the very different anti—government, individualistic, market—based movement of a more conservative period in which many of the lessons of that earlier period were forgotten, though choice was once again presented as the answer to racial inequality. This book brings civil rights back into the center of the debate and tries to move from doctrine to empirical research in exploring the many forms of choice and their very different consequences for equity in U.S. schools. Leading researchers conclude that although helping minority children remains a central justification for choice proponents, ignoring the essential civil rights dimensions of choice plans risks compounding rather than remedying racial inequality.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520274747
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 01/25/2013
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 330
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Gary Orfield is Professor of Education, Law, Political Science and Urban Planning at UCLA. He co—founded and directed The Harvard Civil Rights and has brought this project to UCLA. Orfield is a leader in the field of civil rights, education policy, urban policy and minority opportunity.
Erica Frankenberg is an assistant professor in the Department of Education Policy Studies at Pennsylvania State University and formerly worked at the Civil Rights Project. She is the co—editor of several recent books on K—12 school integration policies.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments ix

Part 1 Introduction

1 Choice and Civil Rights: Forgetting History, Facing Consequences Gary Orfield 3

2 Choice Theories and the Schools Gary Orfield 37

Part 2 School Districts' Use of Choice to Further Diversity

3 The Promise of Choice: Berkeley's Innovative Integration Plan Erica Frankenberg 69

4 Valuing Diversity and Hoping for the Best: Choice in Metro Tampa Barbara Shircliffe Jennifer Morley 89

5 Designing Choice: Magnet School Structures and Racial Diversity Genevieve Siegel-Hawley Erica Frankenberg 107

Part 3 Charter Schools and Stratification

6 A Segregating Choice? An Overview of Charter School Policy, Enrollment Trends, and Segregation Erica Frankenberg Genevieve Siegel-Hawley 129

7 Failed Promises: Assessing Charter Schools in the Twin Cities Myron Orfield Baris Gumus-Dawes Thomas Luce 145

8 The State of Public Schools in Post-Katrina New Orleans: The Challenge of Creating Equal Opportunity Baris Gumus-Dawes Thomas Luce Myron Orfield 159

Part 4 Lessons About Conditions Under which Choice Furthers Integration

9 The Story of Meaningful School Choice: Lessons from Interdistrict Transfer Plans Amy Stuart Wells Miya Warner Courtney Grzesikowski 187

10 School Information, Parental Decisions, and the Digital Divide: The Smart Choices Project in Hartford, Connecticut Jack Dougherty Diane Zannoni Maham Chowhan Courteney Coyne Benjamin Dawson Tehani Guruge Begaeta Nukic 219

11 Experiencing Integration in Louisville: Attitudes on Choice and Diversity in a Changing Legal Environment Gary Orfield Erica Frankenberg 238

Conclusion: A Theory of Choice with Equity Gary Orfield Erica Frankenberg 255

References 271

Contributors 295

Index 299

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