Title: Charter Schools and Their Enemies - Wikipedia
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Charter Schools and Their Enemies
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Content: He dispels many claims made about charter schools and tries to demonstrate the need for educational reform in the United States. Sowell dedicates the book to "those children whose futures hang in the balance" as a result of the current state of the education system. Sowell starts by explaining the current situation with charter schools. He explains that public opinion of charter schools is very divided with some calling it either "a striking success or a 'failed and damaging experiment'". He begins by presenting the case of what he sees as a highly successful school in America; Dunbar High School. He highlights the school because he regards it as an institute that brought huge success for black students in the years 1870 to 1955, which showed that this was possible many years before Brown v. Board of Education, which he has criticised. In these years the school produced the first black federal judge, the first black general, the first black cabinet member, and America's first three black women PhDs. He believes the charter school movement could produce schools as good as Dunbar High but has not yet due to the constant push back against charter schools from teachers unions, politicians, and regulators who want to make charter schools more like traditional schools. The hostility of those critics, Sowell says, is a result of the corrupting influence of money, power, and political advantage, but rarely the best interests of children.