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The fight for America's schools : grassroots organizing in education / Barbara Ferman, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Education politics and policy series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Political aspects--United States.
- Education.
- Education--Political aspects.
- United States.
- Education--Social aspects--United States.
- Education--Social aspects.
- Political culture--United States.
- Political culture.
- Social justice--United States.
- Social justice.
- Educational equalization--United States.
- Educational equalization.
- Educational change--United States.
- Educational change.
- Discrimination in education--United States.
- Discrimination in education.
- Education and state--United States.
- Education and state.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 192 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781682530955
- 1682530957
- 9781682530962
- 1682530965
- OCLC:
- 988256137
- Publisher Number:
- 99973772731
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