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Community action for school reform /

"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 necess...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baum, Howell S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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?