Educational Freedom in Urban America: Fifty Years After Brown v. Board of Education

this Book Offers A Prescription For Reform That Includes Freedom Of Choice Among Public And Private Schools. Preliminaries......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 PREFACE......Page 8 ACKNOWLEDGMENT......Page 12 1. The Continuing Struggle for Parental Choice,......Page 14 2. Fulfilling the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education,......Page 18 3. Freedom of Choice......Page 26 4. The Meaning of Zelman and the Future of School Choice......Page 66 5. Educational Freedom for D.C. Schools......Page 82 6. Undermining Teacher Quality......Page 122 7. Private and Public School Desegregation in Atlanta 50 Years after Brown vs. Board of Education......Page 148 8. Building Futures with Private Scholarships......Page 160 9. Success as a Charter School: The Cesar Chavez Experience......Page 170 10. The Politics of School Choice......Page 190 11. What Does a Voucher Buy?......Page 218 12. Markets and Urban Schooling......Page 260 13. How Markets Affect Quality......Page 278 CONTRIBUTORS......Page 338 INDEX......Page 342 Exposes the modern barriers that deprive inner-city children of a good education and calls for increased school choice as the most effective way to achieve the goals of Brown v. Board. From publisher description