The fight for America's schools: grassroots organizing in education

Introduction: The new landscape of education politics / Barbara Ferman

Challenges to coalition building: confronting power with creativity / Barbara Ferman and Nicholas Palazzolo

A tale of two cities: community resistance in Newark and Camden / Stephen Danley and Julia Sass Rubin

With our powers combined: grassroots activism in Philadelphia / Elaine Simon, Rand Quinn, Marissa Martino Golden, and Jody C. Cohen

When the personal becomes political: parent organizing and the opt-out movement / Barbara Ferman

Organizing goes statewide: the case of Save Our Schools NJ / Julia Sass Rubin

Lessons from the grass roots / Barbara Ferman

Preserving education as a collective good / Susan Dejarnatt and Barbara Ferman.