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books about making Schools institutions of empowerment
Justice and the Politics of Difference, by Iris Marion Young
"Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice. ... [She] makes the case that normative theory and public policy should undermine group-based oppression by affirming rather than suppressing social group differences."
Black Students and School Failure, by Jacqueline Jordan Irvine
Irvine looks at quantitative and qualitative data that shows the disparity in education and academic achievement between black children and white children. She analyzes the way policies and practices (formal and informal) contribute to this disparity, and makes prescriptions to address the problems.
Social Class, Social Action, and Education: The Failure of Progressive Democracy, by Aaron Schutz
"Middle-class progressives in the early twentieth century wanted to transform a corrupt and chaotic industrial America into an 'authentic' democracy. But they were led astray by their privilege..."
Reclaiming Education, by James Tooley
"Tooley shows that there is an alternative to poor quality and wasteful inefficiency in education, and that education can be radically transformed to guarantee freedom and higher standards."
Race, Class, and Power in School Restructuring, by Pauline Lipman
"This book challenges common assumptions about the efficacy of teacher collaboration, empowerment, and professional development to improve the educational experience of low-achieving African American students without engaging the political and ideological context in which reforms take place."
Educational Equality, by Harry Brighouse, James Tooley, and Kenneth R. Howe
Discusses answer to questions like, What is educational equality? Why does educational equality matter? Is educational equality possible?
The New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberalism, Race and the Right to the City, by Pauline Lipman
Lipman analyzes "the relationship between contested education policies and the neoliberal economic, political and ideological processes that are reshaping cities in the United States and around the globe."
"Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice. ... [She] makes the case that normative theory and public policy should undermine group-based oppression by affirming rather than suppressing social group differences."
Black Students and School Failure, by Jacqueline Jordan Irvine
Irvine looks at quantitative and qualitative data that shows the disparity in education and academic achievement between black children and white children. She analyzes the way policies and practices (formal and informal) contribute to this disparity, and makes prescriptions to address the problems.
Social Class, Social Action, and Education: The Failure of Progressive Democracy, by Aaron Schutz
"Middle-class progressives in the early twentieth century wanted to transform a corrupt and chaotic industrial America into an 'authentic' democracy. But they were led astray by their privilege..."
Reclaiming Education, by James Tooley
"Tooley shows that there is an alternative to poor quality and wasteful inefficiency in education, and that education can be radically transformed to guarantee freedom and higher standards."
Race, Class, and Power in School Restructuring, by Pauline Lipman
"This book challenges common assumptions about the efficacy of teacher collaboration, empowerment, and professional development to improve the educational experience of low-achieving African American students without engaging the political and ideological context in which reforms take place."
Educational Equality, by Harry Brighouse, James Tooley, and Kenneth R. Howe
Discusses answer to questions like, What is educational equality? Why does educational equality matter? Is educational equality possible?
The New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberalism, Race and the Right to the City, by Pauline Lipman
Lipman analyzes "the relationship between contested education policies and the neoliberal economic, political and ideological processes that are reshaping cities in the United States and around the globe."