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

by Dennis Shirley

Book Overview

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 explores how community organizing and activism in support of public schools in one of America's most economically disadvantaged regions, the Rio Grande Valley...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292777655
• ISBN13: 9780292777651
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"