Learning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice
- ISBN-10
- 0807747025
- ISBN-13
- 9780807747025
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 205
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-04-24
- Publisher
- Teachers College Press
- Authors
- Jeannie Oakes, John Rogers
Description
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.
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