Why is it so difficult to design and implement fundamental educational reform in large city schoo...

As an avenue for progressive politics in a nation still skeptical of change, community organizing...

Marion Orr is the Frederick Lippitt Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science...

This volume examines the ways youth, parents, community members, and civic leaders join forces to...

'More than 53 million Latinos now constitute the largest, fastest-growing, and most diverse minor...

This volume examines the ways youth, parents, community members, and civic leaders join forces to...

As recently as the early 1960s, Latinos were almost totally excluded from city politics. This mak...

The diaries of two Scottish women, who were born and brought up and lived all their lives in the ...

Spanning sixty-two years, from 1882-1944, the diaries give a fascinating insight into the lives o...

Two strong women recorded the events in their lives in the years immediately before and after 190...

A fascinating account of rural life, seen through the eyes of two farmer's wives. Both were born ...