Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice
- ISBN-10
- 1893554074
- ISBN-13
- 9781893554078
- Series
- Breaking Free
- Category
- Education, Urban
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Encounter Books
- Author
- Sol Stern
Description
This book explores the growing demand for school choice among poor families in the inner city. Stern describes the dramatic successes and occasional failures of this 'new civil rights movement' in the key cities: Milwaukee, Cleveland and New York. Filled with timely insights and human drama, this book describes how cash-starved Catholic schools in the South Bronx are performing small educational miracles every day with children the public school have given up on. Drawing on personal observation and intimate conversation with parents, students and education, this is the first book to transform school choice from an abstract policy issue into a question of basic personal freedom, and indeed, for minority children at the bottom of the social ladder, into a question of survival. Equal access to the American dream through quality education is, Sol Stern convinces us, the unfinished business before us.
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