The Choice We Face

"The Choice We Face is a bold book that puts race and segregation at the forefront of the educational reform movement. Hale’s writing is persuasive, comprehensive, and important for understanding how we fight against the school choice movement."—Bettina L. Love, author of We Want to Do More Than Survive
 
"The Choice We Face makes clear is that if we are to ensure a solid future for our traditional education system, we have to understand how communities have used the language and history of school choice as a weapon of mass destruction, as often as they have used those words as a battle cry to build a democracy that ensures freedom and citizenship for all."—Noliwe Rooks, author of Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education
 
"Hale shines a light on the dark history behind seemingly neutral concepts like school choice and neighborhood schools."—Derek W. Black, author of Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy

"Challenges us to come to grips with a reality that we cannot turn away from. Public education will either completely shift its direction toward justice or will forever remain a conduit of marginalization, isolation, and white supremacy for students of color. It is clear: reform under the cloak of ‘choice’ is not an option."—David Stovall, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Born Out of Struggle

“With his skillful excavation of a history too often ignored, Hale reminds us that the vision of public education as a shared and common good has yet to be realized and offers a path forward for finally getting there.”—Jennifer C. Berkshire, author of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School