Charter Schools and Their Enemies

by Thomas Sowell

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Winner of the 2021 Hayek Book Prize A leading conservative intellectual defends charter schools against the teachers' unions, politicians, and liberal educators who threaten to dismantle their success.

The black-white educational achievement gap — so much discussed for so many years — has already been closed by black students attending New York City's charter schools. This might be expected to be welcome news. But it has been very unwelcome news in traditional public schools whose show more students are transferring to charter schools. A backlash against charter schools has been led by teachers unions, politicians and others — not only in New York but across the country. If those attacks succeed, the biggest losers will be minority youngsters for whom a quality education is their biggest chance for a better life. show less

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themulhern 2,101 reviews

Brief, with lots of data in tables in the back. Unfortunately, my library system does not own a single copy, so I was not able to really dig into it. Now, though, at least I have a much better idea of what a charter school is.

Jan 11, 2022

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Library book August 2020

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