| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 297 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 School Reform and Educational Improvement: Challenges and Responses -- Ch. 2 Attachment and Knowledge -- Ch. 3 Building the Education Field: Getting Parents, Schools and Communities Together -- Ch. 4 Baltimore, the Schools, and Southeast Education Task Force -- Ch. 5 Getting started, Getting Bearings -- Ch. 6 Creating the Southeast Education Task Force -- Ch. 7 Organizing Networks for Southeast Education: Engaging the School System -- Ch. 8 Organizing Networks for Southeast Education: Connecting with Parents and Community Institutions -- Ch. 9 Doing Something -- Ch. 10 Education and the Empowerment Zone: Participation in the Service of Action -- Ch. 11 Acting as a Way of Knowing: Action Research -- Ch. 12 Knowing as a Means to Acting: Research for Action -- Ch. 13 Money Matters: The Costs of Participation, Research, and Action -- Ch. 14 Realities and Fantasies in University-Community Partnerships -- Ch. 15 Why Community-School Partnerships Are Unlikely -- Ch. 16 Building Networks in Turbulent Fields: Tension between Attachment and Knowledge -- Ch. 17 Evaluating the Southeast Education Task Force -- Ch. 18 Can Community Action Reform Schools or Improve Education? |
| Summary |
"Community Action for School Reform tells the story of a partnership between Baltimore community activists and a university as they created an organization to improve neighborhood schools. The book examines the challenges they faced, such as persuading community members that they had the necessary knowledge to do something about the schools, starting and sustaining an organization, conducting and using research, engaging the school system, and funding their work."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-289) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Community and school -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Case studies
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School improvement programs -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Case studies
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Education, Urban -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Case studies
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EDUCATION -- Teaching Methods & Materials -- General.
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Community and school
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Education, Urban
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School improvement programs
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Maryland -- Baltimore
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1417500816 |
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9781417500819 |
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0791457591 |
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9780791457597 |
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0791457605 |
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9780791457603 |
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9780791486672 |
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0791486672 |
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