The Fight for America's Schools
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The Fight for America's Schools investigates how parents, communities, teachers, unions, and students are mobilizing to oppose market-based reforms in education. The book explores grassroots organizing campaigns, describing the reconfiguration of historical alliances, the mobilization of new organizations, and the potential for new coalitions that provide a countervailing force to established political configurations and strive to preserve education as a public good. "Across the country, parents, teachers, and community leaders are forming broad, community-based coalitions to respond to the…mehr

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The Fight for America's Schools investigates how parents, communities, teachers, unions, and students are mobilizing to oppose market-based reforms in education. The book explores grassroots organizing campaigns, describing the reconfiguration of historical alliances, the mobilization of new organizations, and the potential for new coalitions that provide a countervailing force to established political configurations and strive to preserve education as a public good. "Across the country, parents, teachers, and community leaders are forming broad, community-based coalitions to respond to the growing emphasis on market-oriented public school reform. Drawing on case studies in the Philadelphia, Newark, and Camden metropolitan region, Barbara Ferman and her contributors describe who participates in these school reform coalitions, why they became involved, and the nature of the organizations that support their efforts. This book adds important insights on the ways parents and community members can band together to challenge the powerful forces that are pushing the market-based reform agenda." > "This book could not be more timely, urgent, and compelling. It takes us to the front lines of grassroots organizing against neoliberal assaults on public education today, showing the new ways that parents, teachers, unions, and other progressives--across urban and suburban lines--are building coalitions to boycott high-stakes tests and stop school closings. A richly detailed, carefully argued, and ultimately hopeful book." > "As this urgent book reveals, there are students, parents, and teachers with resolute determination to defend public education from privatization schemes. Read The Fight for America's Schools. Then get in the ring." >Barbara Ferman is a professor of political science at Temple University and founder and executive director of the University Community Collaborative.
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Barbara Ferman is a professor of political science at Temple University and founder and executive director of the University Community Collaborative, a social justice initiative that provides media-based leadership development programming for high school and college students. She is the author of Governing the Ungovernable City: Political Skill, Leadership, and the Modern Mayor (Temple University Press, 1985) and Challenging the Growth Machine: Neighborhood Politics in Chicago and Pittsburgh (University of Kansas Press, 1996) and coauthor of The Political Hand: Policy Implementation and Youth Employment Programs (Pergamon Press, 1985). She has published journal articles and book chapters on community development, racial integration, civic engagement, youth media, community-based research, and pedagogy. She also directs the Philadelphia node of the Urban Based Research Action Network (URBAN), a community of scholars and change makers committed to exploring the intersections of education policy and social justice in order to improve public policy.