Organizing for Educational Justice: The Campaign for Public School Reform in the South Bronx

by Michael B. Fabricant

Since the 1980s, strategies for improving public education in America have focused on either competition through voucher programs and charter schools or standardization as enacted into federal law through No Child Left Behind. These reforms, however, have failed to narrow the performance gap between poor urban students and other children. In response, parents have begun to organize local campaigns to strengthen the public schools in their communities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816669619
• ISBN13: 9780816669615
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"