Mothers United - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mothers United write by Andrea Dyrness. This book was released on 2013-11-30. Mothers United available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In urban American school systems, the children of recent immigrants and low-income parents of color disproportionately suffer from overcrowded classrooms, lack of access to educational resources, and underqualified teachers. The challenges posed by these problems demand creative solutions that must often begin with parental intervention. But how can parents without college educations, American citizenship, English literacy skills, or economic stability organize to initiate change on behalf of their children and their community? In Mothers United, Andrea Dyrness chronicles the experiences of five Latina immigrant mothers in Oakland, California—one of the most troubled urban school districts in the country—as they become informed and engaged advocates for their children’s education. These women, who called themselves “Madres Unidas” (“Mothers United”), joined a neighborhood group of teachers and parents to plan a new, small, and autonomous neighborhood-based school to replace the overcrowded Whitman School. Collaborating with the author, among others, to conduct interviews and focus groups with teachers, parents, and students, these mothers moved from isolation and marginality to take on unfamiliar roles as researchers and community activists while facing resistance from within the local school district. Mothers United illuminates the mothers’ journey to create their own space—centered around the kitchen table—that enhanced their capacity to improve their children’s lives. At the same time, Dyrness critiques how community organizers, teachers, and educational policy makers, despite their democratic rhetoric, repeatedly asserted their right as “experts,” reproducing the injustice they hoped to overcome. A powerful, inspiring story about self-learning, consciousness-raising, and empowerment, Mothers United offers important lessons for school reform movements everywhere.
Bad Mothers United
Bad Mothers United - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bad Mothers United write by Kate Long. This book was released on 2013-02-28. Bad Mothers United available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The long-awaited sequel to the number one bestselling THE BAD MOTHER'S HANDBOOK. Before Yummy Mummies and Slummy Mummies, before the Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, before we wondered How She Does It, there was THE BAD MOTHER'S HANDBOOK. Hundreds of thousands of readers lived a year in the life of Charlotte, Karen and Nan as they struggled with becoming mothers for the first time. And now they are back. Certainly older, probably not wiser, and definitely as hilariously catastrophic as before. For all those who have asked how to be a woman, here is HOW TO BE...A BAD MOTHER. A storyteller in the Joanna Trollope league, Long writes astutely and comically about the complexities of motherhood' Independent 'Warm, witty and wise' Red 'One of the authors that I rush out to buy straight away. I find her work challenging, witty, fresh and real' Adele Parks
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Protecting Soldiers and Mothers write by Theda Skocpol. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Protecting Soldiers and Mothers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is a commonplace that the United States lagged behind the countries of Western Europe in developing modern social policies. But, as Theda Skocpol shows in this startlingly new historical analysis, the United States actually pioneered generous social spending for many of its elderly, disabled, and dependent citizens. During the late nineteenth century, competitive party politics in American democracy led to the rapid expansion of benefits for Union Civil War veterans and their families. Some Americans hoped to expand veterans' benefits into pensions for all of the needy elderly and social insurance for workingmen and their families. But such hopes went against the logic of political reform in the Progressive Era. Generous social spending faded along with the Civil War generation. Instead, the nation nearly became a unique maternalist welfare state as the federal government and more than forty states enacted social spending, labor regulations, and health education programs to assist American mothers and children. Remarkably, as Skocpol shows, many of these policies were enacted even before American women were granted the right to vote. Banned from electoral politics, they turned their energies to creating huge, nation-spanning federations of local women's clubs, which collaborated with reform-minded professional women to spur legislative action across the country. Blending original historical research with political analysis, Skocpol shows how governmental institutions, electoral rules, political parties, and earlier public policies combined to determine both the opportunities and the limits within which social policies were devised and changed by reformers and politically active social groups over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By examining afresh the institutional, cultural, and organizational forces that have shaped U.S. social policies in the past, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers challenges us to think in new ways about what might be possible in the American future.
The Time Use of Mothers in the United States at the Beginning of the 21st Century
The Time Use of Mothers in the United States at the Beginning of the 21st Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Time Use of Mothers in the United States at the Beginning of the 21st Century write by Rachel Connelly. This book was released on 2010. The Time Use of Mothers in the United States at the Beginning of the 21st Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on the time use of mothers of pre-teenaged children in the United States from 2003 to 2006.
Founding Mothers of the United States
Founding Mothers of the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Founding Mothers of the United States write by Selene Castrovilla. This book was released on 2021. Founding Mothers of the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tells the story the Founding Mothers of the United States and how they helped shape a free and independent United States of America.
