Streetwise for book smarts : grassroots organizing and education reform in the Bronx

Publication Data

• Title Streetwise for book smarts : grassroots organizing and education reform in the Bronx
• Author Celina Su
• Publisher Cornell University Press
• Publication date 2009
• Publication location Ithaca, N.Y.
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005.

Contents

A kaleidoscope of people power
Public education and organizing in the Bronx
Organizing the organizations : the Alinskyite tool kit
Friends forever : the Freirean tool kit
Off the charts : tackling issues of race in SCOs
What these tools can build : developing capacities for policy making
Favorite hits : embedded preferences for confrontation or collaboration
Commitment and commencement.

Topics

• School improvement programs :: New York (State) :: New York :: Case studies
• Educational change :: New York (State) :: New York :: Case studies
• Community organization :: New York (State) :: New York :: Case studies
• Nonprofit organizations :: New York (State) :: New York :: Case studies
• Social movements :: New York (State) :: New York :: Case studies
• Community and school :: New York (State) :: New York
• Bronx (New York, N.Y.) :: Social conditions
• Bronx (New York, N.Y.)

Streetwise for book smarts : grassroots organizing and education reform in the Bronx by Celina Su. ISBN 9780801475580. Published by Cornell University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.