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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fabricant, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Public schools > New York (State) > New York.
School improvement programs > New York (State) > New York.
Educational change > New York (State) > New York.
Community organization > New York (State) > New York.
Social movements > New York (State) > New York.
Écoles publiques > New York (État) > New York.
Enseignement > Réforme > New York (État) > New York.
Organisation communautaire > New York (État) > New York.
Mouvements sociaux > New York (État) > New York.
EDUCATION > Decision-Making & Problem Solving.
Community organization
Educational change
Public schools
School improvement programs
Social conditions
Social movements
New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions.
New York (State) > New York
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Resetting the Agenda; Part I. Community Power and Education Reform; 1. Democracy, Community, and the Crisis of Public Education; 2. The Collaborative to Improve School District 9; Part II. A Moral Obligation to Act; 3. Creating a Platform for Change; 4. Attending to the Base and Consolidating Alliances; 5. Building Community to Change Community; 6. Launching the Lead Teacher Campaign; Part III. The Future of Education Reform; 7. Growing Community Power; 8. Grassroots Democracy and Parent Organizing.

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