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Jeannie Oakes (Author), John Rogers (Author), Martin Lipton (Author)

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0807747025 978-0807747025 March 31, 2006
In cities across the nation, low-income African American and Latino parents hope that their childrenÂ’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:

* Grassroots public activism informed by social inquiry as the best way to realize Brown v. Board of EducationÂ’s promise of "education on equal terms."
* Activist young people, teachers, parents, and community organizations working to improve schools in our nationÂ’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.

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.


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Jeannie Oakes is Presidential Professor in Educational Equity and Director of UCLAÂ’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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participatory social inquiry, social design experiments, disruptive knowledge, equitable schooling, social movement organizing, equitable schools, educational justice, equity reforms, teacher inquiry, transformative goal, equitable education, advantaged students, inquiry groups
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Learning Power, Los Angeles, Wilson High, South Gate, Mary Johnson, African American, United States, The Educational Justice Collaborative, John Dewey, Emma Street, Building Power, Ella Baker, The Limits of School Reform, Valerie Muñoz, Stanford Elementary, Parent Curriculum Project, Board of Education, Jim Crow, Ramón Martinez, Roosevelt High School, Elizabeth Minster, Cicely Bingener, Street Elementary, Unjust Schools, Justina Paque
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