The fight for America's schools : grassroots organizing in education / Barbara Ferman, editor.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2017]
Description
viii, 192 pages ; 23 cm.

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    Series
    Education politics and policy series [More in this series]
    Summary note
    This book investigates new developments in community organizing around education - the reconfiguration of historical alliances, the mobilization of new organizations, and the potential for new coalitions--Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-176) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: The new landscape of education politics / Barbara Ferman
    • Challenges to coalition building: confronting power with creativity / Barbara Ferman and Nicholas Palazzolo
    • A tale of two cities: community resistance in Newark and Camden / Stephen Danley and Julia Sass Rubin
    • With our powers combined: grassroots activism in Philadelphia / Elaine Simon, Rand Quinn, Marissa Martino Golden, and Jody C. Cohen
    • When the personal becomes political: parent organizing and the opt-out movement / Barbara Ferman
    • Organizing goes statewide: the case of Save Our Schools NJ / Julia Sass Rubin
    • Lessons from the grass roots / Barbara Ferman
    • Preserving education as a collective good / Susan Dejarnatt and Barbara Ferman.
    ISBN
    • 9781682530955 (paperback)
    • 1682530957 (paperback)
    • 9781682530962 (library edition)
    • 1682530965 (library edition)
    LCCN
    2017023238
    OCLC
    988256137
    Other standard number
    • 99973772731
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