The rising gap between rich and poor: A look at the persistence of educational disparities in the United States and why we should worry

Cogent Social Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Flores, Roseanne L ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

charter schools; educational disparities; neoliberal policies; poverty; public education

Indexed keywords

EID: 85051442622     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23311886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23311886.2017.1323698     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. American Psychological Association, Presidential Task Force on Educational Disparities. (2012). Ethnic and racial disparities in education: Psychology’s contributions to understanding and reducing disparities. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/ed/resources/racial-disparities.aspx
2. Aud, S., Hussar, W., Johnson, F., Kena, G., Roth, E., Manning, E., … Zhang, J., (2012). The condition of education 2012 (NCES 2012-045). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved April, 2017 from http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch
3. Brontë, C., (1847). Jane Eyre. London: Smith, Elder.
4. Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO). (2015). Urban charter school study report on 41 regions. Stanford, CA: Stanford University.
5. Every Student Succeeds Act. (2015). Retrieved from https://www.ed.gov/esea
6. Fabricant, M., & Fine, M., (2012). Charter schools and the corporate makeover of public education: What’s at stake?. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
7. Giroux, H. A., (1999). Schools for sale: Public education, corporate culture, and the citizen-consumer. The Educational Forum, 63, 140–149.10.1080/00131729908984404
8. Harvey, J., (2011). Privatization: A drain on public schools. Educational Leadership, 69, 48–53.
9. Henry, S. D., (2017). Charter schools: A critical appraisal. State Education Standard, 17, 44–46.
10. Hursh, D., (2001). Neoliberalism and the control of teachers, students, and learning: The rise of standards, standardization, and accountability. Cultural Logic, 4, 4–1.
11. Hursh, D., (2007a). Exacerbating inequality: The failed promise of the No child left behind act. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 10, 295–308.10.1080/13613320701503264
12. Hursh, D., (2007b). Assessing no child left behind and the rise of neoliberal education policies. American Educational Research Journal, 44, 493–518. doi:10.3102/0002831207306764
13. Hursh, D., & Martina, C. A., (2003). Neoliberalism and schooling in the US: How state and federal government education policies perpetuate inequality. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 1(2), 1–13.
14. Levine, M., & Levine, A., (2014). Charters and foundations: Are we losing control of our public schools? American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 84, 1–6. doi:10.1037/h0098942
15. Lincoln, A., (1863). Gettysburg address. Retrieved from http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/gettysburg/good_cause/transcript.htm
16. Lincoln, A., (n.d.). Brainy quotes. Retrieved from https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/abrahamlin143183.html
17. Martinez, E., & Garcia, A., (1997). What is neoliberalism? A brief definition for activists. National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, 1).
18. Noguera, P. A., (2009). The achievement gap: Public education in crisis. New Labor Forum (Murphy Institute), 18, 60–69. doi:10.4179/NLF.182.0000008
19. OECD. (2016). “United States”, in education at a glance 2016: OECD indicators. Paris: Author. doi:10.1787/eag-2016-86-en
20. Ravitch, D., (2014). Reign of error: The hoax of the privatization movement and the danger to America’s public schools. New York, NY: Vintage.
21. Salazar Perez, M., & Cannella, G., (2011). Disaster capitalism as neoliberal instrument for the construction of early childhood education/care policy: Charter schools in post-Katrina New Orleans. International Critical Childhood Policy Studies, 4, 47–68.
22. Scott, T., (2011). A nation at risk to win the future: The state of public education in the U.S. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 9, 267–316.
23. Stone, S., (2009). Education and social policy. In J., Midgley & M., Livermore (Eds.), The handbook of social policy (pp. 381–420). Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
24. The White House, Office of the Press Secretary. (2015, December). Fact sheet: Congress acts to fix no child left behind [Press Release]. Retrieved from https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/03/fact-sheet-congress-acts-fix-no-child-left-behind
25. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. (2012).
26. USA Education in Brief. (2008). Bureau of international information programs. U.S. Department of State. Retrieved from http://www.america.gov/