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Book SynopsisBringing together the frameworks to investigate the role that race plays in hallmark policies of neoliberal school reforms such as school closings, high-stakes testing, and charter school proliferation, this book examines how that reform expands racial and economic inequality, and share grassroots stories of resistance to these reforms.
Trade Review«In light of ALL that is happening in American society, it stretches credulity to think that there are still people who think that we are BEYOND race. This collection underscores the way that race is implicated in every aspect of schooling and the editors and contributors take bold, empirically grounded positions that assert once and for all that race has EVERYTHING to do with education and schooling.» (Gloria Ladson-Billings, Professor, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
«We cannot understand and challenge today’s pervasive attacks on public education without looking intersectionally. Such is the argument compellingly fleshed out by Picower, Mayorga, and colleagues in this collection of brilliant exposés of neoliberal ‘reforms’ that insidiously widen racial and economic injustices. ‘What’s Race Got To Do With It’ is a must-read for anyone to see the bigger picture.» (Kevin Kumashiro, Dean of the University of San Francisco School of Education; Editor of ‘Six Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education: Partial Stories, Improbable Conversations’)
«In light of ALL that is happening in American society, it stretches credulity to think that there are still people who think that we are BEYOND race. This collection underscores the way that race is implicated in every aspect of schooling and the editors and contributors take bold, empirically grounded positions that assert once and for all that race has EVERYTHING to do with education and schooling.» (Gloria Ladson-Billings, Professor, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
«We cannot understand and challenge today’s pervasive attacks on public education without looking intersectionally. Such is the argument compellingly fleshed out by Picower, Mayorga, and colleagues in this collection of brilliant exposés of neoliberal ‘reforms’ that insidiously widen racial and economic injustices. ‘What’s Race Got To Do With It’ is a must-read for anyone to see the bigger picture.» (Kevin Kumashiro, Dean of the University of San Francisco School of Education; Editor of ‘Six Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education: Partial Stories, Improbable Conversations’)
Table of ContentsContents: Wayne Au: High-Stakes Testing: A Tool for White Supremacy for Over 100 Years – David Stovall: Mayoral Control: Reform, Whiteness, and Critical Race Analysis of Neoliberal Educational Policy – Pauline Lipman: School Closings: The Nexus of White Supremacy, State Abandonment, and Accumulation by Dispossession – Brian Jones: Keys to the Schoolhouse: Black Teachers, Privatization, and the Future of Teacher Unions – Ujju Aggarwal: School Choice: The Freedom to Choose, the Right to Exclude – Terrenda White: Charter Schools: Demystifying Whiteness in a Market of «No Excuses» Corporate-Styled Charter Schools – Amy Brown: Philanthrocapitalism: Race, Political Spectacle, and the Marketplace of Beneficence in a New York City School – Barbara Madeloni: edTPA: Doubling Down on Whiteness in Teacher Education.
