Every year, in one out of three big cities, the school superintendent leaves his or her job, sending local community leaders back to square one. Cleveland, Baltimore and Washington, DC, are struggling to recreate their failed school systems and many more cities are likely to follow. City leaders need more than new superintendents. They need stable reform strategies strong enough to move an entrenched system. Unfortunately, it is not clear where they can turn for help. Education experts are deeply divided about whether teacher retraining or new standards are enough to reform a struggling city...
Every year, in one out of three big cities, the school superintendent leaves his or her job, sending local community leaders back to square one. Cleve...
Squatters and autonomous movements have been at the forefront of radical politics in Europe for nearly a half-century from struggles against urban renewal and gentrification, to large-scale peace and environmental campaigns, to spearheading the antiausterity protests sweeping the continent. Through an examination of the local history of these movements in eight different cities including Amsterdam, Berlin, and other famous centers of autonomous insurgence, along with underdocumented cities such as Poznan and Athens "The City Is Ours" paints a broad and complex picture of Europe s squatting...
Squatters and autonomous movements have been at the forefront of radical politics in Europe for nearly a half-century from struggles against urban ren...