
Community Development and School Reform
Robert L. Crowson(Editor)
JAI Press Inc.
Will be published approx. on 22. June 2001
Book
Hardback
252 pages
978-0-7623-0779-1 (ISBN)
Description
The volume focuses on community development and school reform and the challenges of school administration in highly porous systems.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Limited
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
552 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7623-0779-1 (9780762307791)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Content
List of contributors. Overview: community development and school reform (R.L. Crowson). The sense of place and the neighborhood school: implications for building social capital and for community development (M.E. Driscoll). Leadership outside the triangle: the challenges of school administration in highly porous systems (C.T. Kerchner, G. McMurran). Community based organizations, Title I schools, and youth opportunity: challenges and contradictions (R.A. Pena et al.). Economic geography of Latino Los Angeles: schooling and urban transformations at century's end (R.D. Torres, L.F. Miron). The role of education in community development: the Akron Enterprise community initiative (C.L. McGaughy). Linking community organizing and school reform: a comparative analysis (D.L. Shirley). Lessons (and questions) from workplace schools on the interdependence of family, school, and work (C. Smrekar). Civic capacity and school principals: the missing link for community development (E.B. Goldring, C. Hausman). Schools in the bowling league of the new American economy: theorising on social/economic integration in school-to-work opportunity systems (H.B. Mawhinney).