Learning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice

by John Rogers, Jeannie Oakes, John Rogers, et al.

Book Overview

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, ill equipped, and shamefully under-staffed. Unless things change dramatically, more than half the students will never graduate and many will face a life of poverty-wage work. Learning Power documents a radical approach to school reform that includes:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807747025
• ISBN13: 9780807747025
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 8.9"