New Faculty Book Explores Charter School Fact vs. Rhetoric

MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Assistant Professor of Education Studies Tara Affolter has coedited the book The Charter School Solution: Distinguishing Fact from Rhetoric with Jamel K. Donnor, associate professor in the School of Education at the College of William and Mary. The book is published by Routledge as part of its Research in Education series.

Routledge offers the following description of the book:

In the book’s introduction, Affolter and Donnor write that, “The empirical, theoretical, and casae studies presented here should give politicians, ‘reformers,’ parents, educators, and community members pause and consider the damaging impact of charter school expansion in this country.”