This Is Our School! : : Race and Community Resistance to School Reform / / Hava Rachel Gordon.
How local educational justice movements wrestle with neoliberal school reformParents, educators, and activists are passionately fighting to improve public schools around the country. In This Is Our School! Hava Rachel Gordon takes us inside these fascinating school reform movements, exploring their...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The National Context: Neoliberal Education Reform, Race, and Resistance -- 2. The Reformers: Race, Privilege, and Saving Children from Disaster -- 3. The Dispossessed: Neighborhood Activists Beating Back Gentrification -- 4. Fragile Alliances: Cross- Racial Solidarity and Conflict in Community Claims to the Neighborhood School -- 5. No Permanent Enemies, No Permanent Allies: The Politics of Reformer- Community Nonprofit Partnerships -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Methodological Appendix: Researching Urban School Reform and Community Movements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
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Summary: | How local educational justice movements wrestle with neoliberal school reformParents, educators, and activists are passionately fighting to improve public schools around the country. In This Is Our School! Hava Rachel Gordon takes us inside these fascinating school reform movements, exploring their origins, aims, and victories as they work to build a better future for our education system.Focusing on a school district in Denver, Colorado, Gordon takes a look at different coalitions within the school reform movement, as well as the surprising competition that arises between them. Drawing on over eighty interviews and ethnographic research, she explores how these groups vie for power, as well as the role that race, class, and gentrification play in shaping their successes and failures, strategies and structures. Gordon shows us what happens when people mobilizefrom the ground up and advocate for educational change. This Is Our School! gives us an inside look at the diverse voices within the school reform movement, each of which plays an important role in the fight to improve public education. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781479843633 9783110754001 9783110753776 9783110754186 9783110753967 9783110739107 |
DOI: | 10.18574/nyu/9781479848317.001.0001 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Hava Rachel Gordon. |