New book: learning power

[colist at comm-org.wisc.edu]

Hi everyone,

Thanks to those who replied to the call for reviewers.  We now have
someone to do the review.

Randy

On 4/1/2006, "colist at comm-org.wisc.edu" <colist at comm-org.wisc.edu>
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>[ed: Congratulations to Jeannie and John on their new book. If you would
>like to review this book, please let me know. Preference will be given
>to those who offered last time but were declined.]
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>From: "Jeannie Oakes" <oakes at ucla.edu>
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>Learning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice
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>Jeannie Oakes and John Rogers
>Teachers College Press
>Pub Date: April 2006, 208 pages
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>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:
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>* Grassroots public activism informed by social inquiry as the best way
>to realize Brown v. Board of Education’s promise of “education on equal
>terms.”
>* Activist young people, teachers, parents, and community organizations
>working to improve schools in our nation’s poorest neighborhoods.
>* The voices, images, and actions of people who are organizing to fight
>for better schools.
>* A comprehensive critique of the prevailing logic of American schooling
>and an alternative logic based on justice and participatory democracy.
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>Here are the best arguments against those who want to give up on public
>schools in America. Read Learning Power for clear examples of how ordinary
>people can influence schooling through their organizing and social critique.
>Jeannie Oakes is Presidential Professor in Educational Equity and Director
>of UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA). John Rogers
>is the Associate Director of IDEA and the founding editor of Teaching to
>Change LA, an online journal.Martin Lipton is Communications Analyst at IDEA
>and a former public high school teacher.
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