
Learning Power
Organizing for Education and Justice
Teachers' College Press
Will be published approx. on 24. April 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-8077-4702-5 (ISBN)
Description
In cities across the nation, low-income African American and Latino parents hope that their children's education will bring a better life. But their schools, typically, are overcrowded, ill equipped, and shamefully under-staffed. Unless things change dramatically, more than half the students will never graduate and many will face a life of poverty-wage work. ""Learning Power"" documents a radical approach to school reform that includes: grassroots public activism informed by social inquiry as the best way to realize Brown v. Board of Education's promise of ""education on equal terms""; activist young people, teachers, parents, and community organizations working to improve schools in our nation's poorest neighborhoods; the voices, images, and actions of people who are organizing to fight for better schools; and a comprehensive critique of the prevailing logic of American schooling and an alternative logic based on justice and participatory democracy. Here are the best arguments against those who want to give up on public schools in America. Read ""Learning Power"" for clear examples of how ordinary people can influence schooling through their organizing and social critique.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations, map, ports.
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 167 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
290 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8077-4702-5 (9780807747025)
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Persons
Jeannie Oakes is Presidential Professor in Educational Equity and Director of UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA). John Rogers is the Associate Director of IDEA and the founding editor of Teaching to Change LA, an online journal. Martin Lipton is Communications Analyst at IDEA and a former public high school teacher.