Abstract
Documentary history reveals that charter schools are a vestige of the socially divided school system of 19th-century England. The current charter school movement in the United States raises the danger to American democracy of splitting up the U.S. school structure and creating a separate system of schools for other people's children.
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Daniel Tanner
Daniel Tanner is Professor Emeritus at the Graduate School of Education of Rutgers University. He is author of Crusade for Democracy: Progressive Education at the Crossroads (SUNY Press, 2015) and coauthor (with Laurel Tanner) of History of the School Curriculum (Macmillan, 1990). Email: [email protected]