The Choice We Face: How Segregation, Race, and Power Have Shaped America Book

The Choice We Face: How Segregation, Race, and Power Have Shaped America's Most Controversial Education Reform Movement Hardcover Book Jon Hale See photos for details and condition Open to offers and bundles Check out my other listings for additional items The idea of school choice, which emerged in the 1950s during the civil rights movement, was disguised by American rhetoric as a symbol of freedom and individualism. Shaped by the ideas of conservative economist Milton Friedman, the school choice movement was a weapon used to oppose integration and maintain racist and classist inequalities. Still supported by Democrats and Republicans alike, this policy continues to shape American education in nuanced ways, Hale shows—from the expansion of for-profit charter schools and civil rights–based reform efforts to the appointment of Betsy DeVos.