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Charter Schools and the Corporate Makeover of Public Education: What's at Stake? - Mike Fabricant

Mike Fabricant

Professor and Community Advocate

Charter Schools and the Corporate Makeover of Public Education: What’s at Stake?

By Deborah Meier (Foreword), Michael Fabricant and Michelle Fine

Charter Schools and the Corporate Makeover of Public Education: What’s at Stake?
  • Publisher: Teachers College Press
  • Available in: Paperback, Ebook
  • ISBN: 0807752851
  • Published: January 15, 2012
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This book will reset the discourse on charter schooling by systematically exploring the gap between the promise and the performance of charter schools. The authors do not defend the public school system, which for decades has failed primarily poor children of color. Instead, they use empirical evidence to determine whether charter schooling offers an authentic alternative for these children.

One of the “15 must-read books about K-12 education in the US” by The Christian Science Monitor

Reviews

“Fabricant and Fine have fearlessly peered behind the ‘Waiting for Superman’ hype. Everyone interested in the future of American education needs to read this insightful analysis of how our public schools are being dismantled under the banner of reform.”

–Juan Gonzalez, New York Daily News columnist and co-host of Democracy Now!

“A spectacular book–needs to be published yesterday.”

–Deborah Meier, New York University

“A compelling analysis of the promise, politics, and problems of charter schools. The authors go well beyond a defense of the status quo in offering a progressive agenda to more fully realize education’s democratic ideals.”

–Gary Rhoades, Professor of Higher Education, University of Arizona

“Fabricant and Fine present an invaluably clear, historically textured, and carefully argued account of the charter school idea and its transformation from progressive, teacher-driven experiment to corporate, neoliberal edge of the wedge against public education and the public sector writ large”

–Adolph Reed, Jr., Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

“The authors help us see that the emperor has no clothes when one truthfully examines the entire heavily funded charter school movement and the emerging privatization of public education. If you think it does not and will not affect you, please read this revealing book.”

–Barbara J. Fields, Professor of American History, Columbia University

Additionally reviewed in Social Service Review and Journal of Education.

Related Audio

Listen to an interview with Michael Fabricant and Michelle Fine on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show