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Charter Schools and Their Enemies

By: Thomas Sowell
Narrated by: Brad Sanders
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Winner of the 2021 Hayek Book Prize

A leading conservative intellectual defends charter schools against the teachers' unions, politicians, and liberal educators who threaten to dismantle their success.

The black-white educational achievement gap - so much discussed for so many years - has already been closed by Black students attending New York City's charter schools. This might be expected to be welcome news. But it has been very unwelcome news in traditional public schools whose students are transferring to charter schools. A backlash against charter schools has been led by teachers unions, politicians and others - not only in New York, but across the country. If those attacks succeed, the biggest losers will be minority youngsters for whom a quality education is their biggest chance for a better life.

©2020 Thomas Sowell (P)2020 Hachette Audio Education Politics & Government New York Liberalism Social justice
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Another gem from Thomas Sowell, deeply enjoyed the book.
this book is urgently needed in the current situation with charter schools and the current political climate.
timely and enlightening.

Illuminating, informative and thought provoking

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Once again, Thomas Sowell points out the hypocrisy of the elites, especially how little people trusted with the education of children actually care about children. Anyone who truly cares about narrowing the education gap should read this book

Another brilliant and timely work

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