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Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education de Joseph P. Viteritti

Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education

Autor Joseph P. Viteritti
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 oct 2025

Nivel de studiu: master și referință profesională în politici publice și educație. În această lucrare publicată de Oxford University Press, găsim o analiză riguroasă a paradoxului educațional american: deși opțiunile școlare (vouchere, școli charter) au fost concepute inițial ca instrumente de emancipare pentru comunitățile de culoare, acestea au devenit astăzi mecanisme de finanțare a sectorului privat. Radical Dreamers investighează cum rasa și clasa socială rămân, la șapte decenii după încetarea segregării legale, cei mai preciși predictori ai succesului academic.

Apreciem modul în care Joseph P. Viteritti structurează narațiunea în jurul a șase personalități cheie, oferind o perspectivă umană și istorică asupra unor reforme adesea abstracte. Stilul este cel al unui observator avizat, autorul folosindu-și experiența de insider în sistemele de învățământ din New York, Boston și Chicago pentru a deconspira eșecurile ideologice ale ambelor tabere politice. Volumul este comparabil cu Freedom of Choice de Jim Carl în rigurozitatea cu care tratează contextul istoric al voucherelor, dar este actualizat pentru a reflecta realitățile legislative din cele 46 de state care au legalizat școlile charter și impactul politicilor conservatoare recente.

În contextul operei sale, Radical Dreamers continuă temele explorate în Choosing Equality, unde autorul analiza eșecul național în a oferi educație de calitate copiilor defavorizați. Dacă în When Mayors Take Charge se concentra pe guvernarea urbană, aici Viteritti extinde cadrul către o critică sistemică a modului în care idealurile reformiste au fost erodate de interese economice și religioase. Este o lectură densă, esențială pentru înțelegerea mecanismelor de segregare modernă sub masca libertății de alegere.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197827109
ISBN-10: 0197827101
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 163 x 221 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și decidenților din domeniul educației care doresc să înțeleagă de ce reformele de tip 'school choice' nu au reușit să reducă decalajul rasial. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă istorică documentată despre transformarea unei mișcări sociale în politică publică de masă. Este un instrument critic pentru oricine analizează relația dintre finanțarea publică și instituțiile de învățământ private.

Despre autor

Joseph P. Viteritti este profesor de politici publice (catedra Blanche D. Blank) la Hunter College, CUNY. Expertiză sa este ancorată în experiența practică la cel mai înalt nivel, servind ca asistent special al inspectorului școlar din New York și consilier senior pentru districtele școlare din Boston și Chicago. A condus Comisia pentru Guvernanță Școlară din New York și a publicat numeroase lucrări de referință despre echitatea în educație și administrația urbană, fiind o voce autoritară în dezbaterea privind reforma sistemului de învățământ american.

Descriere

An immersive and authoritative history of the school choice movement--from its idealistic roots among Black activists to the costly unaccountable programs of today. Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Education and demands to desegregate public schools, race and class remain the most reliable predictors of educational achievement in America. In attempting to address this divide, many school reformers have championed school choice: solutions like charter schools, vouchers, and other innovations designed to build more options into the system. Today, at least thirty-three states have laws that enable parents to send their children to private and religious schools at public expense while forty-six states have legalized charter schools. In Radical Dreamers, Joseph P. Viteritti tells the definitive history of the school choice movement. In the 1990s, school choice emerged as an effort by a coalition of Black activists and conservative lawmakers seeking to offer economically disadvantaged students of color a way out of failing schools. As Viteritti shows, however, today's movement--championed by Republicans, conservatives, and faith-based organizations--has become less about placing disadvantaged children in better schools and more about providing public funding to students, irrespective of income, attending private--and frequently religious--schools. Viteritti, an education insider and supporter of school choice for underserved students, profiles six influential figures, the "radical dreamers," who were integral to understanding the movement for greater education equality and the role that choice can play in fully realizing the movement's potential. Radical Dreamers urges us to have an honest conversation about education in America and where we have gone wrong. Viteritti's compelling narrative of how some of the most passionate educators conceived of school choice provides a valuable context to our nation's long struggle to offer every child in America a good education, and how that goal was undermined by advocates on both the left and right.

Recenzii

Written by one of the nation's most astute observers of our schools, Radical Dreamers is a provocative indictment of America's failure to educate all children regardless of race or class; an intimate history of school choice brought to life by the stories of key figures who helped shape that history; and an honest analysis of the political, legal, and policy issues that define a fierce ongoing debate. What a great read!
Joseph Viteritti has a strong track record of publishing books that are timely, well-reasoned, and beautifully written. This latest contribution doesn't disappoint. I have studied private school choice for over twenty-five years, yet I learned much from the author's engaging descriptions of the people and events that launched and sustained the modern school choice movement.
What did 'school choice' mean in the past, and what does it mean now? In this remarkable history and personal memoir, Joseph Viteritti reminds us about the progressive potential of choice as well as the dangers it poses to racial equity and religious freedom. Along the way, he introduces us to a remarkable cast of characters and-even better-reads his own story into theirs. This isn't just a close examination of school choice; it's an honest and heartfelt reflection by one of the leading education scholars of our time.
Why has the United States failed to secure widespread educational equality despite perpetual reform efforts? Using school choice as a lens, Viteritti brings together detailed participant-observation accounts of key players in decades-long education reform debates as well as his astute observations of political dynamics. No one seriously interested in overcoming America's failed promise of educational opportunity should miss this book's demonstration of vested interests undermining political alliances, generating despair among those most in need of better schooling as racial and economic disparities compound.
Radical Dreamers is an often compelling chronicle of strong-willed, independent-minded progressives interested in K–12 schooling during the second half of the 20th century. ... The author has stuck by his principles even though they've fallen out of vogue on his side of the aisle, and he has provided the intellectual history for any future independent-minded choice-curious progressives.
In Radical Dreamers, Viteritti turns the focus back to the most progressive thread of the school choice story, chronicling the contributions of education researchers, lawyers, and activists -many of them Black men and women... describes his front row seat to fitful efforts to improve public schools... (and) challenges the notion that it is 'conservative' to support school choice, or 'progressive' to oppose it.
Radical Dreamers is a well-written and important history of the educational choice movement. It reminds us that improving schools is possible and that reasonable voices from both sides of the political divide can contribute to that effort - if they have the courage to do so.

Notă biografică

Joseph P. Viteritti is the Thomas Hunter Professor of Public Policy at Hunter College in New York. He has published a dozen books, including Choosing Equality: School Choice, the Constitution and Civil Society. His numerous articles have appeared in scholarly journals, law reviews, and popular venues, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Nation. He gave expert testimony in the landmark US Supreme Court case, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002), and was cited by the Court in Espinosa v. Montana (2020), both of which pertained to the issue of school choice. He has served as a senior advisor to the chancellor of the New York City public schools, as well as the school superintendents in Boston and San Francisco.