Big box schools : race, education, and the danger of the Wal-martization of public schools in America / Lori Latrice Martin.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Race and education in the twenty-first century.
Main Author: Martin, Lori Latrice
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
Series:Race and education in the twenty-first century.
Subjects:
Racism in education > United States.
Public schools > Economic aspects > United States.
Privatization in education > Social aspects > United States.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Physical Description:xi, 173 pages : tables ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Public schools and pathways to prosperity
  • History of race and public education in America
  • Education as a profit machine
  • Race, public education and the Wal-mart model
  • Education and today's black working-class: low quality, low prices, low wages
  • Does Common Core make common sense?
  • Plutocracies the displacement of indigenous organizations and educational leaders
  • Fighting back: changing trajectory of public education in America
  • Worth the fight.