Charter Schools and Their Enemies

A devastating exploration of the incredible successes of charter schools, especially in NY, and those who oppose them. Sowell looks at empirical data amongst the students of charters and traditional public schools, in the same social classes, often attending schools in the same building, and the run......more

A must read to understand how charter schools impact our school systems. Dr. Sowell meticulously lays out evidence about the educational success of charter schools and their critics who seek to destroy them.......more

I went into this book with the vague notion that charter schools offer more opportunities for low-income students, and that the educational establishment has a serious beef with those schools. I came out of it with 130 pages of a concise, readable, and prescient argument and another 150 pages worth......more

This is a short book, released the day after Tom's 90th birthday. I sincerely hope this is not the last we will see from him. The ideas contained within resonate with me but I am fairly uneducated on this topic. I have seen studies that show nationally charter schools do not significantly differ on p......more

This was a moderately enjoyable, but disappointingly unpersuasive read. Sowell writes with his usual incisive clarity and makes it clear where he stands on the issue of charter schools: that they often perform better than public schools in terms of academic outcomes. Sowell spends chapter 2 rather dr......more