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1. Small Schools

   Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society

   By Michael Klonsky, Susan Klonsky

   Series: Positions: Education, Politics, and Culture

   When education activists in New York, Chicago, and other urban school districts in the 1980s began the small-schools movement, they envisioned a new kind of public school system that was fair and equitable and that encouraged new relationships between teachers and students. When that movement for...

   Published March 6th 2008 by Routledge
2. Segregated Schools

   Educational Apartheid in Post-Civil Rights America

   By Paul Street

   Series: Positions: Education, Politics, and Culture

   Fifty years after the US Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" was "inherently unequal," Paul Street argues that little progress has been made to meaningful reform America's schools. In fact, Street considers the racial make-up of today's schools as a state of de facto apartheid. With an...

   Published August 29th 2005 by Routledge
3. School Commercialism

   From Democratic Ideal to Market Commodity

   By Alex Molnar

   Series: Positions: Education, Politics, and Culture

   First published in 2005...

   Published June 22nd 2005 by Routledge
4. The Edison Schools

   Corporate Schooling and the Assault on Public Education

   By Kenneth J. Saltman

   Series: Positions: Education, Politics, and Culture

   The story of the Edison Schools is a gripping tale of money, kids, and greed. What began in the 1980s as an enterprise to transform public schools quickly became a troubled business battling falling test scores and dismal stock prices. How did the most ambitious for-profit education company in U.S....

   Published January 29th 2005 by Routledge
5. Affirmative Action

   Racial Preference in Black and White

   By Tim J. Wise

   Series: Positions: Education, Politics, and Culture

   Affirmative Action examines the larger structure of institutional white privilege in education, and compares the magnitude of white racial preference with the policies typically envisioned when the term "racial preference" is used. In doing so, the book demonstrates that the American system of...

   Published January 29th 2005 by Routledge