Community Organizing for Urban School Reform
Autor Dennis Shirleyen Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 1997
Community Organizing for Urban School Reform tells the story of a radically different approach to educational change. Using a case study approach, Dennis Shirley describes how working-class parents, public school teachers, clergy, social workers, business partners, and a host of other engaged citizens have worked to improve education in inner-city schools. Their combined efforts are linked through the community organizations of the Industrial Areas Foundation, which have developed a network of over seventy "Alliance Schools" in poor and working-class neighborhoods throughout Texas. This deeply democratic struggle for school reform contains important lessons for all of the nation's urban areas. It provides a striking point of contrast to orthodox models of change and places the political empowerment of low-income parents at the heart of genuine school improvement and civic renewal.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292777194
ISBN-10: 0292777191
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 6 b&w Photos
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:UNIV OF TEXAS P
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 0292777191
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 6 b&w Photos
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:UNIV OF TEXAS P
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
Dennis Shirley is Associate Dean and Professor of Teacher Education at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College.
Cuprins
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Origins
- 1. The Contemporary Context
- 2. Moving Schools into the Power Arena
- Part II. Developing Civic Capacity
- 3. Morningside Middle School: Starting a Path for Change
- 4. Jefferson Davis High School: The Struggle for Reform
- 5. Ysleta Elementary School: From Parental Engagement to a New School
- 6. Zavala Elementary School: Learning the Tools of Democracy
- 7. San Antonio: Building Networks of Reform throughout the City
- 8. Texas: Alliance Schools throughout the State
- Part III. Analysts and Critique
- 9. Resistance to Change
- 10. The Pursuit of Success
- 11. “A Great Truth Wants to Be Criticized”
- 12. Building Laboratories of Democracy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Descriere
How engaged citizens have worked to improve education in inner-city schools.