Charter Schools and Their Enemies
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4.6
Thomas Sowell
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 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.
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Author
Thomas Sowell
Pages
276
Publisher
Basic Books
Published Date
2020
ISBN
1541675134 9781541675131
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"A clear and compelling comparison between government public schools and charter schools. Government, by way of teachers' unions, regulations, and in general a disregard for the fundamental question of schools — what is best for children's education — puts its own interests over those of the children and families. While poor-performing government school teachers virtually cannot be fired, any such charter school teacher will lose his job. Teachers' unions fight for all their union members regardless of their ability to contribute to education, and frequently at the students' expense. City mayors and state governors cuddle up to these unions to curry votes, at students' expense.<br/><br/>The book is (over-) filled with statistical tables, great for a researcher but not so much for the casual reader. At times, the book seems repetitive."
Dwayne Roberts