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ERIC Number: EJ585200
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0017-8055
Charter Schools as Postmodern Paradox: Rethinking Social Stratification in an Age of Deregulated School Choice.
Wells, Amy Stuart; Lopez, Alejandra; Scott, Janelle; Holme, Jennifer Jellison
Harvard Educational Review, v69 n2 p172-204 Sum 1999
This study of the rise of charter schools focuses on understanding how modern identities and postmodern ideologies converge and whom charter school reform benefits. It identifies the potential for greater inequality when people in different social locations define localized social movements. (SK)
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Postmodernism, School Choice, Social Stratification
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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