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Author Martin, Lori Latrice, author.

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

Publication Info. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
2015

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Description 1 online resource (187 pages)
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Series Race and education in the twenty-first century
Race and education in the twenty-first century.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Racism in education -- United States.
Public schools -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Privatization in education -- Social aspects -- United States.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Martin, Lori Latrice. Big box schools : race, education, and the danger of the Wal-martization of public schools in America. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015] Race and education in the twenty-first century
ISBN 9781498510417 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781498510424 (e-book)

 
    
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