Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement by Suitts, Steve
Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement by Suitts, Steve

Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement

School choice, largely touted as a system that would ensure underprivileged youth have an equal opportunity in...
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Author: Steve Suitts
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Language: English
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Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement by Suitts, Steve

Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement

$67.17
Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement by Suitts, Steve

Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement

$67.17
Author: Steve Suitts
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
School choice, largely touted as a system that would ensure underprivileged youth have an equal opportunity in education, has grown in popularity in the past fifteen years. The rhetoric of school choice, however, resembles that of segregationists following Brown v. Board, who closed public schools and funded private institutions to block African American students from integrating with their white peers. In Overturning Brown, Steve Suitts examines the parallels between de facto segregationist policies and the modern school choice movement to expose the dangers lying behind the so-called civil rights policies of Betsy DeVos and the education privatization lobbies. Economic and educational disparity has expanded exponentially in the years following Brown v. Board, and post-Jim Crow discriminatory policies drive inequality and poverty today. It is only through recognizing the smoke and mirrors that Suitts deftly exposes in Overturning Brown that we understand the risk America's underprivileged youth face with school voucher programs and as public funds are funneled into charter schools and predominately white and wealthy private schools.

Author: Steve Suitts
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Published: 02/04/2020
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.70w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781588384201


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2019
Publishers Weekly 12/16/2019
Library Journal 01/01/2020 pg. 83
Booklist 02/15/2020 pg. 10

About the Author
STEVE SUITTS is an adjunct at the Institute for Liberal Arts of Emory University and has been chief strategist for Better Schools Better Jobs, a Mississippi-based education advocacy project of the New Venture Fund. Suitts began his career as a staff member of the Selma Project. He was founding director of the Alabama Civil Liberties Union; the executive director of the Southern Regional Council; and program coordinator, vice president, and senior fellow of the Southern Education Foundation. He is the author of Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution and Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement. He was the executive producer and one of the writers of Will the Circle Be Unbroken, a thirteen-hour public radio series that received a Peabody Award.
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