Digital Networking for School Reform The Online Grassroots Efforts of Parent and Teacher Activists
, by Heron Hruby, Alison; Landon-Hays, MelanieNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781137430731 | 1137430737
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 3/28/2014
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.