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Valley Interfaith and School Reform: Organizing for Power in South Texas
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Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002

This book describes community organizing strategies for school improvement among Chicanos and Mexican immigrants in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.

Community Organizing for Urban School Reform
University of Texas Press, Austin, 1997
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This book analyzed how grass-roots organizations in the Southwest have created broad-based political networks to improve inner city schools and communities.

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The Politics of Progressive Education
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1992
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This book describes how innovative German reformers resisted Nazi school reforms.

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CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES

Chapter in Urban Education with an Attitude
by Lauri Johnson (Editor), Mary E. Finn (Editor), Rebecca Lewis (Editor), Johnson Lauri (Editor), Finn Mary E. (Editor), Lewis Rebecca (Editor). State University of New York Press, 2005

“Community Organizing and No Child Left Behind,” in Marion Orr, ed., The Ecology of Civic Engagement (Manhattan, KS: University Press of Kansas, forthcoming)

“Community Organizing and Teacher Education,” in Mary E. Finn and Patrick Finn eds., Teacher Education with an Attitude (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, forthcoming)

“Promoting Participatory Democracy Through Community Organizing,” in Francine P. Peterman, ed., Resiliency, Resistance, and Persistence in Transcending Traditional Boundaries: Communities Partnering to Prepare Urban Teachers (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, forthcoming)

“Challenges of Community Engagement in Urban Teacher Preparation,” in Francine P. Peterman, ed., Resiliency, Resistance, and Persistence in Transcending Traditional Boundaries: Communities Partnering to Prepare Urban Teachers (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, forthcoming)

“Transforming Urban Education through the Massachusetts Coalition for Teacher Quality and Student Achievement,” in Lauri Johnson, Mary E. Finn, and Rebecca Lewis, eds., Urban Education with an Attitude (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, forthcoming)

"Excellence in Schools of Education: An Oxymoron?," with Mary M. Brabeck, in Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 84, no. 5, January 2003, pp. 368-372.

"The Case That Won't Go Away: Besieged Institutions and the Massachusetts Teacher Tests," with Larry Ludlow and Camilia Rosca, in Educational Policy and Analysis Archives, vol. 10, no. 50, December 2002, http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v10n50/.

"Faith-Based Organizations, Community Development, and the Reform of Public Schools," Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 76, no. 2, 2001, pp. 222-239.

"Faith-Based Organizations and the Reform of Public Education: Promises and Perils," in E.J. Dionne, Jr., and Ming Hsu Chen, eds., Sacred Places, Civic Purposes: Should Government Help Faith-Based Charity? (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2001), pp. 176-190.

"Linking Community Organizing and School Reform: A Comparative Analysis," in Robert Crowson and William Boyd, eds., Community Development and School Reform (New York: Elsevier, 2001), pp. 139-170.

"Patience and Politics: Alliance Schools Develop Parental Leadership," Shelterforce, July/August 2001, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 8-24.

"Community Organizing for Parental Engagement: The Educational Collaboratives of the Texas Industrial Areas Foundation," in Robert H. Wilson, ed., Public Policy and Community: Activism and Governance in Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997), pp. 166-228.

"La résistence pédagogique. Paul Geheeb et l'école de l'Odenwald sous le Nazisme," in Daniel Hameline, Jürgen Helmchen, and Jürgen Oelkers, eds., L'Éducation Nouvelle et l'enjeux de son histoire. Actes du colloque international des Archives Institut (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1995), pp. 105-116

"Radikaler Humanismus: Die Lebensarbeit von Paul und Edith Geheeb in der Odenwaldschule und in der Ecole d'Humanité," Die Reformpädagogik auf den Kontinenten, Hermann Röhrs and Volker Lenhart, eds.,(Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1994), pp. 249-258

"Promising Practices in the Social Studies," Promising Practices in Teaching Social Responsibility, Sheldon Berman and Phyllis LaFarge, eds., (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993), pp. 163-181

"Impressions of a School Reform in the Year of German Unification: The Team/Small Group Model," From Two to One: Impressions of German Unification (Bonn: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 1992), pp.159-178

"When Did New England Women Acquire Literacy?" with Joel Perlmann, The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 3, 1991, pp. 50-67

"Teaching Freedom," Magazine of History, vol. 3, no. 3/4, 1988, pp. 3-4

"A Critical Review and Appropriation of Pierre Bourdieu's Analysis of Social and Cultural Reproduction," Journal of Education, vol. 168, no. 2, 1986, pp. 96-112

"Reproduction, Contestation, and Political Theater: Reflections on Three Productions," Journal of Education, vol. 168, no. 1, 1986, pp. 93-104

"Synergy and the Modalities of Power," Praxis: Perspectives on Development and Change, vol. 4, no. 1, 1985, pp. 41-51

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BOOK REVIEWS

Clarence N. Stone, Jeffrey R. Henig, Bryan D. Jones, and Carol Pierannunzi, "Building Civic Capacity: The Politics of Reforming Urban Schools," Urban Education, vol. 38, no. 2, March 2003, pp. 236-243

Anthony Bryk, "Charting Urban School Reform," American Journal of Sociology, vol. 105, no. 1, July 1999, pp. 275-277

Hildegard Feidel-Merz, "Schulen im Exil: Die verdrängte Pädagogik nach 1933", New German Critique, no. 32, 1988

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PAPERS PRESENTED

"Organizing Communities of Practice and Inquiry in Diverse Urban Schools," Association of Teacher Educators Summer Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 2003

"Requisite Variety and Collaboration in Teacher Education," American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2003

"Street-Level Bureaucrats and the Massachusetts Teacher Tests: A Study in Unanticipated Consequences of State and Federal Policies," American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2003

"Challenges of Community Engagement in Urban Teacher Preparation," American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2003

"Promoting Participatory Democracy through Community Organizing," American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2003

"Building Civic Capacity in Urban Schools and Communities," Holmes Partnership Annual Conference, Washington, DC, February 2003

"K-16 Partnerships Link Staff Development and Student Achievement," National Staff Development Council Annual Conference, Boston Massachusetts, December 2002

"Enhancing Quality Teaching and Learning through the Massachusetts Coalition K-16 Partnerships," National Staff Development Council Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, December 2002
"The Massachusetts Coalition for Teacher Quality and Student Achievement," Holmes Partnership Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, January 2002

"From Parent Involvement to Parent Engagement: Lessons from Texas' Alliance Schools," Industrial Areas Foundation Conference on School Reform, Los Angeles, California, July 2001

"Building Communities of Inquiry and Practice in the Massachusetts Coalition for Teacher Quality and Student Achievement," American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, April 2001

"Community Development and School Reform: A New Challenge to Site-Level Leadership," American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, April 2001

"The New Private Universities in Germany," Annual Meeting, German Chancellors Scholars, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,Washington, DC, April 2001

"Nazi School Reform and Pedagogical Resistance: The Case of the Odenwaldschule," Cornell University Chapter, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Ithaca, New York, April 2001

"Best Teaching Practices in Alliance Schools," Alliance School Conference, Austin, Texas, March 2001
"Building Communities of Inquiry and Practice in the Massachusetts Coalition for Teacher Quality and Student Achievement," American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Dallas, Texas, March 2001

"Standards and Diversity in Teacher Preparation," American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Dallas, Texas, March 2001

"Accepting the Challenge of Partnerships for Teacher Quality Enhancement," American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Dallas, Texas, March 2001

"From Community Organizing to Culturally Responsive Curricula," American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2000

"Wagenscheins Pädagogik und Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung," Martin Wagenschein Gesellschaft, Odenwaldschule, Oberhambach, Germany, April 2000.

"Best Practices from the Alliance Schools," Alliance School Conference, Dallas, Texas, February 2000.
"How Alliance Schools Change Teaching and Learning," Alliance School Conference, Houston, Texas, January 2000.

"Developing Teachers and Principals into Community Organizers," Alliance School Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 1999

"Community Organizing and School Reform in the Rio Grande Valley," American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada, April 1999

"Community Organizing for Urban School Reform: Lessons from the Alliance Schools in Texas," Brookings Institution/Russell Sage Foundation, New York, New York, March 1996

"Community Organizing, Social Capital, and School Reform," Conference on Social Capital and Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, May 1995

"Die Zersplitterung der Odenwaldschule in der NS-Zeit: Neue Perspektive aus der langen Sicht"
Odenwaldschule, Oberhambach, Germany, October 1993

"Successful Models of Urban School Reform," Alliance School Conference, Houston, Texas,August 1993

"Reactualizing Progressive Education: Studies of School Change," American Educational Research Association, Atlanta, Georgia, April 1993

"Restructuring Education Today: Three Strands of Reform," Rice University Seminar for High School Teachers, Rice University, Houston, Texas, November 1992

"Paul Geheeb's Resistance to National Socialism in the Odenwaldschule," Institute Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Geneva, Switzerland, April 1992

"American Progressive Education in Comparative and Historical Perspective," Institute Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Geneva, Switzerland, May 1991

"Recent American Innovations in Intercultural Education," Jahreskongress der Gemeinnützigen Gesellschaft Gesamtschulen, Hannover, Germany, May 1991

"Crisis and Reform in American Schools," Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Saarbrücken, Germany, March 1991

"Why the Team/Small Group Model is Important for American Educators," Landesverband der Gemeinützigen Gesellschaft Gesamtschulen, Saarbrücken, Germany, January 1991

"German Reform Pedagogy," History of Education Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, October 1989

"Nazi School Reform and Pedagogical Resistance: Paul Geheeb and the Odenwaldschule in the Era of National Socialism," American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, March 1989

"From Hagiography to Critical Biography: The Case of Paul Geheeb," International Society for Educational Biography Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, Arizona, April 1989

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