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2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction) Finalist

A timely indictment of the corporate takeover of education and the privatizationand profitabilityof separate and unequal schools, published at a critical time in the dismantling of public education in America

An astounding look at America''s segregated school system, weaving together historical dynamics of race, class, and growing inequality into one concise and commanding story. Cutting School puts our schools at the center of the fight for a new commons.
Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes Everything

Public schools are among America''s greatest achievements in modern history, yet from the earliest days of tax-supported educationtoday a sector with an estimated budget of over half a billion dollarsthere have been intractable tensions tied to race and poverty. Now, in an era characterized by levels of school

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      Publisher The New Press
      Published 1/16/2020
      ISBN-13 9781620975985
      978-1620975985
      ISBN-10 162097598X
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      Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction) Finalist

      A timely indictment of the corporate takeover of education and the privatizationand profitabilityof separate and unequal schools, published at a critical time in the dismantling of public education in America

      An astounding look at America''s segregated school system, weaving together historical dynamics of race, class, and growing inequality into one concise and commanding story. Cutting School puts our schools at the center of the fight for a new commons.
      Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes Everything

      Public schools are among America''s greatest achievements in modern history, yet from the earliest days of tax-supported educationtoday a sector with an estimated budget of over half a billion dollarsthere have been intractable tensions tied to race and poverty. Now, in an era characterized by levels of school

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