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A school of our own : parents, power, and community at the East Harlem Block Schools / Tom Roderick; foreword by William C. Ayres

Main Author Roderick, Tom Secondary Author Ayres, William C. Country Estados Unidos. Publication New York : Teachers College Press, cop. 2001 Description X, 179 p. : il. ; 23 cm Series Teaching for social justice series ISBN 0-8077-4156-6 CDU 37.018.26

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A School of Our Own shows how in 1965 a group of Puerto Rican "homemakers" created better schools for their children and built a community that enabled many adults to transform their lives. Including both educational and political struggles, this engaging story addresses timely topics like: how to provide good early childhood education in a way that simultaneously strengthens families; how to create an organization strongly committed to countering race, class, and gender prejudice and discrimination; how to strengthen civil society and engage people in public life; and how to eliminate poverty-specifically, how to address the unfinished business left by the 1996 "reform" of welfare.

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Foreword (p. viii)
Acknowledgments (p. ix)
Introduction (p. 1)
1. Beginnings (p. 7)
2. Our Children Have Their Own School (p. 25)
3. Power to the Parents (p. 47)
4. The Block Nurseries Under Day Care (p. 70)
5. Battling the System, Part I (p. 98)
6. Battling the System, Part II (p. 121)
7. Political Setbacks, Personal Victories (p. 144)
8. Lessons from the Block Schools (p. 159)
References (p. 173)
Index (p. 175)
About the Author (p. 180)

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Tom Roderick worked full-time at the East Harlem Block Schools from 1968 to 1975 as teacher-director of the East Harlem Day School. He is now the executive director of Educators for Social Responsibility Metropolitan Area.