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- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- ISBN
- 9780801475580
- EAN
- 9780801475580
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Streetwise for Book Smarts : Grassroots Organizing and Education Reform in the Bronx
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 264 Pages
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In Streetwise for Book Smarts , Celina Su examines the efforts of parents and students who sought to improve the quality of education in their local schools by working with grassroots organizations and taking matters into their own hands. In these organizations, everyday citizens pursued not only education reform but also democratic accountability and community empowerment. These groups had similar resources and operated in the same political context, yet their strategies and tactics were very different: while some focused on increasing state and city aid to their schools, others tried to change the way the schools themselves operated. Some coalitions sought accommodation with administrators and legislators; others did not.The events Su describes began with a series of stabbings in Bronx high schools during the 2003-2004 school year. After this rash of violence, several grassroots groups cited the need for additional safety patrols. Mothers from one school spoke of how they had previously protested until they got extra officers, a fairly scarce resource in New York public schools, at their local elementary school. Others asserted that not all the safety patrol officers already in place were treating students humanely. Parent organizations and school officials battled over who was to blame for the school violence. Did a police presence solve the problem, or did it exacerbate the schools' violence-prone conditions? Members of different groups proposed and mobilized behind a range of remedies. These divergent responses shed light on the ways in which the choices made by each organization mattered.By learning from Su's close observation of four activist groups in the Bronx, including Mothers on the Move and Sistas and Brothas United, we can better understand strategies that may ultimately lead to better and safer schools everywhere and help to revitalize American democracy.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
0801475589
ISBN-13
9780801475580
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71646651
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Streetwise for Book Smarts : Grassroots Organizing and Education Reform in the Bronx
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Lb2822.83.N7s82 2009
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"This is an extremely useful and important book. Celina Su charts different methods and models used by community organizations working for school reform. She shows how community organizing is changing, and how it succeeds. Streetwise for Book Smarts is an illuminating look into the cultural practices of social change groups applicable nationwide."-Jean Anyon, author of Radical Possibilities and Theory and Educational Research: Toward Critical Social Explanation, "Celina Su's book sheds new light on the potential for organized parents and young people to create change in the nation's largest school system-and one of our most troubled. In doing so, Su takes a novel approach to studying community organizing. She focuses on the different kinds of cultural toolkits various groups employ and show why they matter for the struggle to achieve more just and equitable education for low-income communities of color. Streetwise for Book Smarts is an important book for the emerging field of scholarship on community organizing-and for organizers alike."-Mark R. Warren, Harvard University, "Celina Su's book sheds new light on the potential for organized parents and young people to create change in the nation's largest school system--and one of our most troubled. In doing so, Su takes a novel approach to studying community organizing. She focuses on the different kinds of cultural toolkits various groups employ and show why they matter for the struggle to achieve more just and equitable education for low-income communities of color. Streetwise for Book Smarts is an important book for the emerging field of scholarship on community organizing--and for organizers alike."--Mark R. Warren, Harvard University, "This is an extremely useful and important book. Celina Su charts different methods and models used by community organizations working for school reform. She shows how community organizing is changing, and how it succeeds. Streetwise for Book Smarts is an illuminating look into the cultural practices of social change groups applicable nationwide."--Jean Anyon, author of Radical Possibilities and Theory and Educational Research: Toward Critical Social Explanation, "Celina Su's Streetwise for Book Smarts delivers a smart and critical look at the cultural toolkits that shape political perspectives, community organizing strategies, political positions and social change in the Bronx. Setting a new standard in the cultural analysis of community organizing with a deep look at race issues and the internal life of her four case studies, Su gives both veterans of the struggle and the Obama generation a roadmap on how to use the best Alinskyite and Freirean tools to forge an effective grassroots movement in America."--James Mumm, National Training and Information Center, "Streetwise for Book Smarts is a completely novel and provocative take on an extremely important topic. Its great strength arises from Celina Su's street-level research style. This book should be read by community organizers, foundation officers, and policy makers as well as political scientists, sociologists, urban anthropologists, and scholars of community organizing."--Dennis Shirley, Boston College, "Celina Su's Streetwise for Book Smarts delivers a smart and critical look at the cultural toolkits that shape political perspectives, community organizing strategies, political positions and social change in the Bronx. Setting a new standard in the cultural analysis of community organizing with a deep look at race issues and the internal life of her four case studies, Su gives both veterans of the struggle and the Obama generation a roadmap on how to use the best Alinskyite and Freirean tools to forge an effective grassroots movement in America."-James Mumm, National Training and Information Center
Copyright Date
2011
Topic
Educational Policy & Reform / General, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Sociology / General, Social History, Political Process / Political Advocacy, Nonprofit Organizations & Charities / General, Aims & Objectives, Sociology / Urban, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Lccn
2008-049127
Dewey Decimal
371.2/0709747275
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Education, Business & Economics, History, Social Science, Political Science
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