The Work of Education: Community-Based Educators in Schools, Freedom Struggles, and the Labor Movement, 1953-1983

In the early 1960s, civil rights organizers in American cities designed a novel response to the urban and educational crises unfolding around them: hiring local residents, primarily the mothers of schoolchildren, to work in public schools. Local hiring, they argued, would improve instruction, connec...

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Main Author: Juravich, Nicholas Albert
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7916/D83J3RHF