Location
Tierra Columbiana4535 N 5th St
Philadelphia, PA 19140
United States
Google map and directions
Event contact
Kelley CollingsAll 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/