Digital Networking for School Reform: The Online Grassroots Efforts of Parent and Teacher Activists (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137430731)

This book provides first-person accounts from parents and educators in the United States who have negotiated for a prominent role in current conversations about school reform. Heron-Hruby and Landon-Hays argue that it is important to both theorize and document grassroots efforts at a time when digital networking in the Untied States allows a range of people - not just those in conventional positions of corporate or political power - to garner widespread support for education policy. In particular, the book focuses on the shifts in power that take place when teachers and parents are able to carve out successful wide-spread campaigns against high-profile policy movements, specifically the present movement towards charter school proliferation and value-added measures of teacher quality advocated by a growing number of political leaders, political action committees, and privately funded ad hoc advocacy groups.

Author: Kenneth A. Loparo
ISBN-10: 1137430737
ISBN-13: 9781137430731
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2014
Pages: 77
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d