02077cam a2200277 i 4500 512859307 TxAuBib 20211018120000.0 210302s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021005011 9780807087480 HRD 28.95 0807087483 HRD 28.95 TxAuBib rda Hale, Jon, 1981- Choice we face. The choice we face [BOOK] : how segregation, race, and power have shaped America's most controversial education reform movement / Jon N. Hale. Boston : Beacon Press, 2021. 280 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-266) and index. Most Americans today see school choice as their inalienable right. In The Choice We Face, scholar Jon Hale reveals what most fail to see: school choice is grounded in a complex history of race, exclusion, and inequality. Through evaluating historic and contemporary education policies, Hale demonstrates how reframing the way we see school choice represents an opportunity to evolve from complicity to action. 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. Provided by publisher. 20211018. School choice United States History. Discrimination in education United States History.