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  The Charter School Solution: Distinguishing Fact from Rhetoric

  Tara L. Affolter and Jamel K. Donnor

  Challenging the popular perception that the free market can objectively ameliorate inequality and markedly improve student academic achievement, this book examines the overly positivistic rhetoric surrounding charter schools. Taking a multifocal approach, this book examines how charter schools reproduce inequality in public education. By linking charter schools to broader social issues and political economic factors, such as neoliberalism, race, and class, The Charter School Solution presents a more complete and nuanced assessment of charter schools in the context of the American public education system.

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  The Resegregation of Schools: Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century

  Jamel K. Donnor and Adrienne D. Dixson

  Access to a quality education remains the primary mechanism for improving one’s life chances in the United States, and for children of color, a “good education” is particularly linked to their individual and collective well-being. Despite the popular perception that America is in a “post-racial” epoch, opportunities to access quality learning environments and human development resources remain determined according to race, class, gender, and ability. Taking a more nuanced approach to race and the resegregation of the American school system, this volume examines how and why the education quality for the majority of students of color in America remains fundamentally unequal.

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  Way of the Ferret: Finding and Using Resources on the Internet

  Judi Harris

  This source-book is designed to aid educators in exploring the Internet.