Choice

The route to community control

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4861600
AutoresFrank Margonis (University of Utah), Laurence Parker (0000-0003-3215-5413, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Ano1999
Volume38
Fascículo4
Páginas203-208
Data de publicação1999-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTheory Into Practice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0040-5841 • E-ISSN: 1527-2532
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00405849909543855
OpenAlexW2035485286
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas18

their special concern for low-income students. As Lamar Alexander said, What we're simply trying to do is give people without money more of the same choices of schools that people with money already (quoted in Carnegie Foundation, 1992, p. 3). Numerous commentators have received these promises with incredulity. Even though many current choice proposals target low income families, critics have tended to view this as a strategic means of making choice acceptable to its opponents (Lowe, 1992, p. 30). However, the credibility of choice proposals focusing upon low income groups has been recently bolstered by evidence indicating a growing movement of African American and Latino/a inner city parents favoring choice. Not only do increasing percentages of surveyed inner city parents favor choice, but political movements for choice have featured coalitions of African American and Latino/a parents with Republican choice reformers (Carl, 1996). Thus choice proponents' reassurances that they are concerned with improving the educational circumstances of low income parents have been given a patina of plausibility. The preferences of African American and Latino/a parents are best understood as one aspect

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