This book studies the high costs and suffering associated with battles to save public schools while poor and Black in America. It is valuable for understanding how repeated political battles, even those won by the poor and minoritized, can have serious negative impacts on their relationship to democracy.
This bold and necessary book points out a simple and overlooked truth: most schools never had girls in mind to begin with. That is why the world needs what Sally Nuamah calls feminist schools, deliberately designed to provide girls with achievement-oriented identities. And she shows why doing so would help all students, regardless of their gender.