Digital networking for school reform : the online grassroots efforts of parent and teacher activists

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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 Lando...

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 United 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.

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