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Community Organizing as an Education Reform Strategy |
Many education reform efforts that attempt to improve education for all  learners through the development of new models often find it difficult to maintain momentum. According to new research synthesized by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform (AISR) at Brown University, community organizing for school reform has the potential to:
- Create equitable changes in schools and districts
- Develop innovative education solutions that reflect the knowledge of under-served communities
- Build the long-term social capital of under-served communities both to support schools and districts and to hold them accountable for improving achievement
The new report, entitled The Strengths & Challenges of Community Organizing as an Education Reform Strategy, examines the growing body of existing literature on community organizing for school reform including individual case studies, regional and national scans of the field, investigations of why reform efforts matter, and a large study documenting the impact of community organizing on education policy, school capacity and student educational outcomes across organizations.
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Parent Power Unleashed |
PARENT POWER is a 35-minute documentary that demonstrates how grassroots organizing can generate significant school improvements on a city-wide scale across New York City's African American and Latino neighborhoods.
Check out the movie trailer above and learn more! |
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Community Organizing in Action |
Teach Our Children, located in New Haven, CT, was formed in 2006 by a few parents who decided to take action on their shared concerns about local schools and the lack of meaningful parent input. The parents began knocking on doors, attending training on organizing, and recruiting hundreds of parents.
The Boston Youth Organizing Project (BYOP) has been organizing young people to improve high schools for fourteen years. They have also formed a city-wide coalition with four other youth organizing groups to amplify the voices of young people in decisions about education and other.
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England to create a more student-centered education system that provides a variety of high quality opportunities for all learners, especially those not served well by the current system.