Learning Power

Organizing for Education and Justice

Author: Jeannie Oakes
Secondary Author: John Rogers
ISBN: 9780807747025

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

Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publish Date: 2006

Subjects: Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Education / Aims & Objectives, Education / Higher

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Activism)