Valley Interfaith and school reform : organizing for power in South Texas /

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Can public schools still educate America's children, particularly in poor and working class communities? Many advocates of school reform have called for dismantling public education in favor of market-based models of reform such as privatization and vouchers. By contrast, this pathfinding book...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Shirley, Dennis, 1955-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002.
Édition:1st ed.
Collection:Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
Sujets:
Valley Interfaith (Organization)
Education > Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)
Educational change > Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)
Community and school > Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)
Enseignement > Réforme > Grande, Vallée du rio (Col.-Mexique et Tex.)
Relations école-collectivité > Grande, Vallée du rio (Col.-Mexique et Tex.)
EDUCATION > History.
EDUCATION > Comparative.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Community and school.
Education.
Educational change.
Social conditions
Chancengleichheit
Erziehung
Soziale Situation
Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) > Social conditions.
Grande, Vallée du rio (Col.-Mexique et Tex.) > Conditions sociales.
North America > Rio Grande Valley.
Rio-Grande-Tal
Chicanos.
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Table des matières:
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IN THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY
  • Chaper One: FOUNDING VALLEY INTERFAITH: The Origins of a Grassroots Organization
  • Chapter Two: PARENTAL ENGAGEMENT AT PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
  • Chapter Three: CONTESTED CHANGE AT ALAMO MIDDLE SCHOOL
  • Chapter Four: TRANSFORMING SAM HOUSTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
  • Chapter Five: THE CHALLENGES OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND SCHOOL REFORM
  • APPENDIX
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX.

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