Learning Power - Organizing for Education And Justice

Informationen zum Autor Jeannie Oakes is Presidential Professor in Educational Equity and Director of UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA). John Rogers is the Associate Director of IDEA and the founding editor of Teaching to Change LA, an online journal. Martin Lipton is Communications Analyst at IDEA and a former public high school teacher. Klappentext In cities across the nation! low-income African-American and Latino parents hope their children's education will bring a better life. But their schools! typically! are overcrowded! ill equipped! and shamefully under-staffed. This work offers a radical approach to school reform that stresses grassroots public activism. Zusammenfassung In cities across the nation! low-income African American and Latino parents hope that their children's education will bring a better life. But their schools! typically! are overcrowded. This work documents a radical approach to school reform that includes grassroots public activism informed by social inquiry.

Product details

• Authors: Jeannie Oakes, Jeannie/ Rogers Oakes, John Rogers
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2006
• EAN: 9780807747025
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-4702-5
• No. of pages: 205
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Series: John Dewey Lecture; John Dewey Lecture S.; John Dewey Lecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Hochschulbildung, Fort- und Weiterbildung, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Higher, Education / Teaching, EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives