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Organizing for educational justice : the campaign for public school reform in the South Bronx /
Since the 1980s, strategies for improving public education in America have focused on either competition through voucher programs and charter schools or standardization as enacted into federal law through No Child Left Behind. These reforms, however, have failed to narrow the performance gap between...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Since the 1980s, strategies for improving public education in America have focused on either competition through voucher programs and charter schools or standardization as enacted into federal law through No Child Left Behind. These reforms, however, have failed to narrow the performance gap between poor urban students and other children. In response, parents have begun to organize local campaigns to strengthen the public schools in their communities. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxx, 273 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-258) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816673773 0816673772 9780816669608 0816669600 9780816669615 0816669619 9781452946979 1452946973 |