This is our school! : race and community resistance to school reform / Hava Rachel Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Hava Rachel, 1974- author.

Series:

NYU scholarship online.

NYU scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational equalization--United States.

Educational equalization.

Educational change--United States.

Educational change.

Education--Aims and objectives--United States.

Education.

Community and school--United States.

Community and school.

Education--Colorado--Denver--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Parents, educators, and activists are passionately fighting to improve public schools around the country. In 'This Is Our School!' Hava Rachel Gordon takes us inside these fascinating school reform movements, exploring their origins, aims, and victories as they work to build a better future for our education system. Focusing on a school district in Denver, Colorado, Gordon takes a look at different coalitions within the school reform movement, as well as the surprising competition that arises between them. Drawing on over eighty interviews and ethnographic research, she explores how these groups vie for power, as well as the role that race, class, and gentrification play in shaping their successes and failures, strategies and structures.

Contents:

The national context: Neoliberal education reform, race, and resistance

The reformers: Race, privilege, and saving children from disaster

The dispossessed: Neighborhood activists beating back gentrification

Fragile alliances: Cross-racial solidarity and conflict in community claims to the neighborhood school

No permanent enemies, no permanent allies: The politics of reformer-community nonprofit partnerships.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-4363-6

OCLC:

1176323404