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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Outstanding Book Award, Society of Professors of Education"
"Winner of the Pierre Bourdieu Book Award, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association"
"Winner of the Gold Medal in Education, Independent Publisher Book Awards"
"One of the deepest accounts of life in a demanding public charter school I have ever read . . . . Worth reading."
---Jay Mathews, Washington Post"A thoughtful examination of the behavioral/social structure implemented across many charter schools. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *
"Scripting the Moves tells the story of Dream Academy through the perspectives of teachers, school leaders, students, and parents. Golann weaves these viewpoints together with her own observations to understand the experiences of participating in a highly routinized, discipline-oriented institution. The author deftly layers concepts, vignettes, interview quotes, and secondary data to theorize how these strict settings reproduce inequality by imparting inflexible scripts rather than tools Dream Academy students can use to maneuver within middle-class spaces."
---Kyla Walters, American Journal of Sociology
