The Fight for America's Schools
Grassroots Organizing in Education
Herausgeber: Ferman, Barbara
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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 gr...
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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