Excluded by Choice

Urban Students with Disabilities in the Education Marketplace

AvFederico R. Waitoller,Alfredo J. Artiles

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Through powerful narratives of parents of Black and Latinx students with disabilities, this book provides a unique look at the relationship between disability, race, urban space, and market-driven educational policies. Offering significant insights into complex forms of educational exclusion, the text illustrates the actual challenges and paradoxes of school choice faced by today's parents. Included are explanations for the kinds of injustices students with disabilities face every day, as well as resources that can be helpful for engaging in collective action aimed at improving educational services for all children. This accessible resource offers recommendations to help policymakers, charter school administrators, teachers, and families tackle the challenges of school choice while dealing effectively with the new generation of inclusive schools.Book Features:Presents a first-of-its-kind look at how Black and Latinx parents of students with disabilities experience market-driven approaches to education. Identifies the consequences of push-out practices in charter schools and how families experience and resist these practices. Situates school choice amid historical and compounding forms of exclusion associated with geographical (neighborhood) and social (disability, race, and class) locations.Provides lessons learned and valuable guidance for creating a new generation of inclusive charter schools.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-06-12
Mått:152 x 226 x 15 mm
Vikt:306 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Disability, Culture, and Equity Series
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Teachers' College Press
Medarbetare:Artiles,AlfredoJ.
ISBN:9780807764008

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Federico R. Waitoller is an associate professor in the department of special education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2023 he received the AERA Special and Inclusive Education SIG Distinguished Researcher Award.

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This title has received the 2022 Society of Professors of Education (SPE) Outstanding Book Award.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword: Hope Against the Perverse Ripples of Equality ReformsAlfredo J. Artiles—ixAcknowledgments—xiii1. Introduction—1Excluded by Choice: Entering the Great American Education Debate—5Is This a Book Against Charter Schools?—11A Book About Disability, Race, Education, and Urban Space: Outline of the Book—132. Choosing Schools? Stories of Desperation—18Searching for Safety—21Special Education Services: Austerity Measures and Segregation—34Academics—42Perceiving the Disinvestment and Destabilization of Public Schools—453. Choosing Schools? Stories of Optimistic Attachments—53Parents' Perceptions of Safety in Charter Schools—59Perceptions of Charter Schools as Academically Rigorous—62The Perception of Charter Schools as Well-Resourced Educational Spaces—644. The Cruelty of Optimistic Attachments: Pushout Practices in Charter Schools—69Discipline and Academic Practices—71Delay and Deny Special Education Services—78Lack of Trained Teachers—84Suggesting to "Choose" Another School: "Think of What Is Best for Your Child"—87Aren't These Practices a Violation of Federal Law?—915. Sustaining Hopes of "Inclusion": Fight or Flee—94Complaining to the Charter Administration: "Becoming a Pest"—95he Role of the School District—98Working with Lawyers—1036. The Consequences—112Being Pushed Out—112Deteriorating Students' Well-Being—116Impact on Parents' Well-Being—1277. Fantasies of Inclusion in the Education MarketSpace: Theoretical Contributions—129Parental Choice in the Education MarketSpace—129Fantasies of Inclusion—138The New Racial Inequities in Special Education—1468. Toward an Intersectional and Radical Inclusive Education: Recommendations—150Intersectional Inclusive Education Principles—151Recommendations for Practice—154Recommendations for Policy—160Recommendations for Research—164Conclusion—166Appendix: Methods—168Researcher Positionality—168Recruitment of Participants—169Data Collection—170Data Analysis—172Limitations of the Study—174References—176Index—192About the Author