The Education Exchange: When Radicals Dreamed Big About Better Student Outcomes

A look back at a time the political left cared about school choice

Photo of Joseph ViterittiJoseph P. Viteritti, the Thomas Hunter Professor of Public Policy at Hunter College in New York, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Viteritti’s new book, Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education.

Viteritti recently published an excerpt from Radical Dreamers, “Are Charter Schools an Endangered Species?” in Education Next, and Andy Smarick reviewed the book in “The Progressive School Reform Voices Crying in the Wilderness.”

Radical Dreamers is available now from Oxford University Press.

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