All are welcome!!!

Educators, parents, charter teachers, activists, and community members are all important parts of our growing movement.  

Come even if you didn’t read a book and see what it’s all about!

• Celebrate a summer of learning and organizing together with TAG and the Caucus of Working Educators!
• Learn about the books people read in the 2nd Annual Summer Reading Series (see complete list of books on the back)
• Meet other passionate educators and allies
• Share your ideas and get energized about the movement to defend and transform public education.

2015 Summer Reading Series Book List

Get the full list with descriptions at:

http://www.workingeducators.org/can_book_clubs_save_public_education

★      Multiplication is for White Kids / Lisa Delpit

★      Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race/ Beverly Tatum

★      What's Race Got to Do With It?: How Current School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality / Picower/Mayorga

★      Teaching to Transgress/ bell hooks

★      Educating for Insurgency/ Jay Gillen

★      The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession/ Goldstein

★      The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness/ Michelle Alexander

★      A Movement Without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia/ Levenstein

★      Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space: Where the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance/ Kristen Buras

★      Mapping Corporate Education Reform Power and Policy Networks in the Neoliberal State/ Wayne Au & Joseph Ferrare

★      Ella Baker and the Freedom Movement:  A Radical Democratic Vision/ Barbara Ransby 

★      Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class/ Ian Haney Lopez

Check out reflections, summaries, and pictures from the book clubs on the blog: http://phlbookclubs.blogspot.com/