Leading Against the Grain
Leading Against the Grain

Author: Jeffrey S. Brooks

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2017-12

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0807776661

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To help American education leaders create more just and equitable schools, an impressive group of scholars present profiles of a wide range of outstanding historical and contemporary leaders from across the globe, including Wangari Mathaai, John Tippeconic III, Fannie Lou Hamer, Saul Alinsky, Antonia Pantoja, Jimmy Carter, and Golda Meir. Contributors include Fenwick W. English, Margaret Grogan, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Gaëtane Jean-Marie, Peter McLaren, Sonia Nieto, Izhar Oplatka, Allan Walker, and Michelle D. Young. “This book introduces many new ways to think about leadership in education.” —From the Foreword by William Ayers, education activist “A rare and wonderful book about visionary, incredible, inspirational, exemplary, and diverse leaders.” —Bill Mulford, emeritus professor, University of Tasmania “An impressive resource for anyone committed to developing leaders or preparing to take on the mantle of leadership themselves.” —Sonya Douglass Horsford, Teachers College, Columbia University “For those of us who have suffered through the staid, unimaginative prose of most educational leadership texts, this book is a godsend!” —Lisa D. Delpit, Southern University School of Education

Two Paths to Equality
Two Paths to Equality

Author: Amy E. Butler

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 079148887X

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In Two Paths to Equality, Amy E. Butler provides a fascinating portrait of two of the major adversaries in the 1920s' battle over equal rights legislation for women in the United States—Alice Paul and Ethel M. Smith. While they shared the goal of full political and legal equality for women, they differed on how best to achieve it. Paul, the author of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and leader of the National Woman's Party, fought to establish that women were the same as men under the law. Smith, legislative secretary of the National Women's Trade Union League and a recognized leader of the opposition to the ERA, believed the ERA did not adequately consider the impact of class and economic differences in women's lives and consequently would sacrifice the interests of one group of women to another. Smith and Paul's conflict is a telling story of the inextricable relationship between personal politics, collective action, and the intersection of law and culture on the social construction of gender. Comparing their perspectives on equality creates a new understanding of the people and issues at stake in the ERA debate.