Resources
READINGS:
Readings on community and youth organizing generally:
Alinsky, Saul D. Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Individuals. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.
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Delgado, Gary. Beyond the Politics of Place: New Directions in Community Organizing in the 1990’s. Oakland: Applied Research Center, 1994.
Deschenes, Sarah, Milbrey McLaughlin, and Ann Newman, eds. “Community Organizing and Youth Advocacy.” New Directions in Youth Development No. 117, 2008.
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Ginwright, Shawn, Pedro Noguera, and Julio Cammarota, eds. Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change. New York: Routledge, 2006.
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Sen, Rinku. Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy. San Francisco: Josey-Bass, 2003.
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Smock, Kristina. Democracy in Action: Community Organizing and Urban Change. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
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Warren, Mark. Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
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Readings on organizing for school reform:
Anyon, Jean. RADICAL POSSIBILITIES: Public Policy, Urban Education, and a New Social Movement. New York: Routledge 2005.
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Anyon, Jean. GHETTO SCHOOLING: A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform. NY: Columbia University’s Teachers College Press, October 1997.
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Gold, Eva, Elaine Simon, and Chris Brown. Successful Community Organizing for School Reform. Chicago: Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform, 2002.
Hargreaves, Andy and Dennis Shirley. “Beyond Standardization: Powerful New Principles for Improvement.” Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 90, No. 02 (October 2008): pp. 135-143.
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Hargreaves, Andy and Dennis Shirley. “The Fourth Way to Change.” Educational Leadership, 66, no. 2 (56-61).
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Kamber, Tom. From Schoolhouse to Statehouse: Community Organizing for Public School Reform. New York: National Center for Schools and Communities at Fordham University, 2002.
Complete report [PDF: 33 pages]
Mediratta, Kavitha. Constituents of Change: Community Organizations and Public Education Reform. New York: Institute for Education and Social Policy, 2004.
Complete report [PDF: 76 pages]
Oakes, Jeannie and Martin Lipton. “Struggling for Educational Equity in Diverse Communities: School Reform as Social Movement.” Journal of Educational Change 3: 383-406, 2002.
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Shirley, Dennis. “The Music of Democracy: Emerging Strategies for a New Era of Post-Standardization,” in Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan, eds. Change Wars. Solution Tree, 2008.
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Shirley, Dennis. Valley Interfaith and School Reform: Organizing for Power in South Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.
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Shirley, Dennis. Community Organizing for Urban School Reform. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.
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Warren, Mark R. “Communities and Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform,” Harvard Educational Review, 75 (Summer 2005): 133-173.
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