Lift Us Up, Don't Push Us Out! features voices from the frontlines of a new movement for educational justice that is growing across the United States. Organizers and Activists recount their journeys to movement building, lift up victories and successes, and offer practical organizing strategies and community-based alternatives to traditional education reform and privatization schemes.

"Each one of the essays in “Lift Us Up” is a tour de force. You are captivated by the passion, the fury, the courage, the honesty, and the determination that is expressed so brilliantly by the writers, each who have found a way, by working arm-in-arm with others, to fight for educational justice for all children. I plan to assign this book to all of my students to bring the powerful and authentic voices of these parent and community movement leaders into my classroom."

Karen Mapp, Senior Lecturer on Education at the Harvard School of Education

Click here to watch 'a Lift us Up, Don't Push Us Out' webinar featuring contributing authors Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, Jonathan Stith and Mark Warren.

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