The fight for America's schools : grassroots organizing in education /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ferman, Barbara (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2017]
Series:Education politics and policy series.
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Table of 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.