Charter schools have been promoted as an equitable and innovative solution to the problems plaguing urban schools. Advocates claim that charter schools benefit working-class students of color by offering them access to a "portfolio" of school choices. In Charter Schools, Race, a…
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Annotation Since the inception of charter school reform in the U.S. in the early 1990s, its proponents and opponents have emphasized its privatizing and market-oriented approach. Smith (education, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine) argues that charter schools also provide democrati…
How did a country birthed in individual liberty and voluntary associations create just the opposite in its inflexible, layered, government-controlled public education system? Here, using public choice theory, I explain how near-sighted and unrelated reforms, often based in priva…
Thomas Edison Charter School (TECS) is a K-8 public charter school in Wilmington, Delaware. The school serves over 700 students in kindergarten through eighth grade. TECS has a history of low student achievement and variability in teacher experience and quality of classroom inst…
There has been a robust and ongoing investment in demystifying the discursive and material conditions of neoliberalism. Scholars in communication have done much work to explore the various rhetorical effects and processes of neoliberal discourses and practices. Many of these cas…
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