Rebecca Clothey is Associate Professor in the Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages and the School of Education at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, USA.Kai Heidemann is Assistant Professor of Sociology at University College Maastricht within Maastricht University in the Netherlands. His research focuses on the grassroots politics of educational democratization and community-driven processes of education reform in Europe and Latin America.

• Foreword: Community Organizing and Educational Justice: From Local Struggles to a Global MovementMark R. WarrenAcknowledgementsList of AcronymsNotes on Contributors1. Introduction: Community-Based Schooling and the Intersectional Politics of Decentralization and DemocratizationKai Heidemann and Rebecca Clothey2. Social Movement-Led Democratic Governance of Public Education: The Case of the Brazilian Landless Workers MovementRebecca Tarlau3. Crisis, Protest and Democratization ‘From Below’: The Rise of a Community-Based Schooling Movement in ArgentinaKai Heidemann4. Accountability through Community-Based Management? Implications from the Local Level Implementation in El Salvador of a Globally-Popular ModelD. Brent Edwards Jr.5. Decentralization, Centralization and Minority Education in HungaryAndria D. Timmer6. Decentralization and Education in Tanzania: The Role of Community Schools and Education for the PoorSerena Koissaba7. Between State and Society: Community Schools in ZambiaRichard Bamattre8. Building a Community-Based Charter School in the United StatesRebecca Clothey and Deanna Hill9. An Alternative Education Model in UrumqiRebecca Clothey10. School of Feminism in Beijing: Embodied Resistance and “Weak” Education in Twenty-First-Century ChinaWeiling DengIndex

Rebecca Clothey is Associate Professor in the Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages and the School of Education at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, USA.Kai Heidemann is Assistant Professor of Sociology at University College Maastricht within Maastricht University in the Netherlands. His research focuses on the grassroots politics of educational democratization and community-driven processes of education reform in Europe and Latin America.

• Foreword: Community Organizing and Educational Justice: From Local Struggles to a Global MovementMark R. WarrenAcknowledgementsList of AcronymsNotes on Contributors1. Introduction: Community-Based Schooling and the Intersectional Politics of Decentralization and DemocratizationKai Heidemann and Rebecca Clothey2. Social Movement-Led Democratic Governance of Public Education: The Case of the Brazilian Landless Workers MovementRebecca Tarlau3. Crisis, Protest and Democratization ‘From Below’: The Rise of a Community-Based Schooling Movement in ArgentinaKai Heidemann4. Accountability through Community-Based Management? Implications from the Local Level Implementation in El Salvador of a Globally-Popular ModelD. Brent Edwards Jr.5. Decentralization, Centralization and Minority Education in HungaryAndria D. Timmer6. Decentralization and Education in Tanzania: The Role of Community Schools and Education for the PoorSerena Koissaba7. Between State and Society: Community Schools in ZambiaRichard Bamattre8. Building a Community-Based Charter School in the United StatesRebecca Clothey and Deanna Hill9. An Alternative Education Model in UrumqiRebecca Clothey10. School of Feminism in Beijing: Embodied Resistance and “Weak” Education in Twenty-First-Century ChinaWeiling DengIndex

Rebecca Clothey is Associate Professor in the Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages and the School of Education at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, USA.Kai Heidemann is Assistant Professor of Sociology at University College Maastricht within Maastricht University in the Netherlands. His research focuses on the grassroots politics of educational democratization and community-driven processes of education reform in Europe and Latin America.

• Foreword: Community Organizing and Educational Justice: From Local Struggles to a Global MovementMark R. WarrenAcknowledgementsList of AcronymsNotes on Contributors1. Introduction: Community-Based Schooling and the Intersectional Politics of Decentralization and DemocratizationKai Heidemann and Rebecca Clothey2. Social Movement-Led Democratic Governance of Public Education: The Case of the Brazilian Landless Workers MovementRebecca Tarlau3. Crisis, Protest and Democratization ‘From Below’: The Rise of a Community-Based Schooling Movement in ArgentinaKai Heidemann4. Accountability through Community-Based Management? Implications from the Local Level Implementation in El Salvador of a Globally-Popular ModelD. Brent Edwards Jr.5. Decentralization, Centralization and Minority Education in HungaryAndria D. Timmer6. Decentralization and Education in Tanzania: The Role of Community Schools and Education for the PoorSerena Koissaba7. Between State and Society: Community Schools in ZambiaRichard Bamattre8. Building a Community-Based Charter School in the United StatesRebecca Clothey and Deanna Hill9. An Alternative Education Model in UrumqiRebecca Clothey10. School of Feminism in Beijing: Embodied Resistance and “Weak” Education in Twenty-First-Century ChinaWeiling DengIndex