Valley Interfaith and School Reform : : Organizing for Power in South Texas /

Valley Interfaith and School Reform : : Organizing for Power in South Texas / / Dennis Shirley.

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Can public schools still educate America's children, particularly in poor and working class communities? Many advocates of school reform have called for dismantling public education in favor of market-based models of reform such as privatization and vouchers. By contrast, this pathfinding book...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Shirley, Dennis,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2002
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction. Community Organizing in the Rio Grande Valley
  • Chapter one. Founding Valley Interfaith: The Origins of a Grassroots Organization
  • Chapter two. Parental Engagement at Palmer Elementary School
  • Chapter three. Contested Change at Alamo Middle School
  • Chapter four. Transforming Sam Houston Elementary School
  • Chapter five. The Challenges of Community Organizing and School Reform
  • APPENDIX
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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