This is our school! : race and community resistance to school reform /
Gordon, Hava Rachel, 1974-
This is our school! : race and community resistance to school reform / Hava Rachel Gordon. - New York : New York University Press, 2021. - 1 online resource (303 pages).
Parents, 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.
9781479843633 (ebook) : No price
Educational equalization--United States.
Educational change--United States.
Education--Aims and objectives--United States.
Community and school--United States.
Education--History.--Colorado--Denver
379.260973
This is our school! : race and community resistance to school reform / Hava Rachel Gordon. - New York : New York University Press, 2021. - 1 online resource (303 pages).
Parents, 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.
9781479843633 (ebook) : No price
Educational equalization--United States.
Educational change--United States.
Education--Aims and objectives--United States.
Community and school--United States.
Education--History.--Colorado--Denver
379.260973