Abstract
AbstractIn 2001 the no child left behind act was signed into law with the promise to close the achievement gap between disadvantaged children and their white and more affluent peers. Ribbons were cut, ceremonies were held, as America set off on a new path to ensure that all children would have the tools necessary to achieve the American Dream. Children who in the past only had access to low-quality schools would now be able to attend high-quality schools and acquire the skills necessary to become productive citizens and obtain jobs that would catapult them into the middle class. They would have a “choice.” The choice to attend a failing school, usually deemed “public” or the choice to attend a “charter school” the new option, which would provide them with a high-quality education. Fast forward and after fourteen years of living with the law the idea of obtaining a good public education has continued to decline while the notion of attending a high-quality charter school has continued to be popular in spite...
Highlights
The information in the current article is important for parents, educators, and policy makers who care about ensuring that our children have access to a high-quality public education
Understanding how the corporatization of education has changed the narrative and shifted resources away from public education to charter schools is critical so that parents can make an informed “choice.”
Today thanks to the No Child Left Behind Act and the passing of the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015) legislation signed into law on December 10, 2015, many parents have been given the opportunity to make “choices” concerning where their children can attend school in order to obtain a good education
Summary
Many parents have chosen the “alternative” school believing that like Jane, that the new school will provide their children with a better education, with music and art, qualified teachers, small classes, and exposure to literature like “Jane Eyre”, an education they could never have imagined their children obtaining by attending the local public school, with its few resources, often less than adequate infrastructure, and under qualified teachers. Under the new neoliberal education practices many children, children from minority and low-income communities, given the current climate, will not be provided with a high-quality education that will lead to upward mobility but rather they will receive a substandard education and will develop a set of skills that will allow them to enter the workforce at the bottom taking low paying jobs to support themselves and their families
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