This Is Our School!: Race and Community Resistance to School Reform

Hava Rachel Gordon's book "This Is Our School!" explores the origins, aims, and victories of local educational justice movements as they fight against neoliberal school reform. Drawing on over eighty interviews and ethnographic research, the book examines how these groups vie for power and the role that race, class, and gentrification play in shaping their successes and failures.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 304 pages
\n Publication date: 01 May 2021
\n Publisher: New York University Press
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Parents, educators, and activists around the country are fiercely engaged in a battle to enhance public schools. In This Is Our School! Hava Rachel Gordon takes us on a captivating journey into these remarkable school reform movements, delving into their origins, goals, and triumphs as they strive to create a brighter future for our education system. Gordon focuses on a school district in Denver, Colorado, examining the various coalitions within the reform movement and the unexpected rivalry that emerges among them. Drawing on over eighty interviews and ethnographic research, she explores how these groups compete for power, as well as the significant role that race, class, and gentrification play in shaping their successes and failures, strategies, and structures. Gordon unveils the transformative impact of grassroots mobilization and advocacy for educational change. This Is Our School! provides a unique insiders perspective into the diverse voices within the school reform movement, each of which plays a vital role in the fight to improve public education.

\n Weight: 470g\n
Dimension: 229 x 197 x 22 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781479890057\n \n