Fuller, Howard
Researchers: Howard Fuller
University Affiliation: Marquette University
Email: howard.fuller@marquette.edu
Research Question:
Studies school choice for African Americans.
Published: 0
Journal Name or Institutional Affiliation: N/A
Journal Entry: Paper presented at Symposium on Educational Options for African Americans
Year: 2000
Findings:
- Article discusses the debate about school choice and argues for school choice as the means to expand educational opportunities and improve academic achievement for African Americans.
- The author uses the Milwaukee school system as an example of the failure of court-ordered desegregation plans to achieve educational parity.
- He suggests that the desegregation plan–busing–was actually a “forced choice” of greater benefit to whites than Blacks.
- African American support of vouchers is increasing with their dissatisfaction with public schools—cites the increased participation in the Milwaukee voucher program.
- Argues for school choice as a more effective method to equalizing educational opportunities than desegregation plans.