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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809592303321

Autore

Franklin Barry M

Titolo

Curriculum, community, and urban school reform / / Barry M. Franklin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

ISBN

1-349-37717-1

1-282-90892-8

9786612908927

0-230-10574-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Secondary education in a changing world

Disciplina

371.19

Soggetti

Urban schools

Educational change

Community and school

Curriculum planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgment; List of Abbreviations; 1 Community and Curriculum: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Urban School Reform; 2 Community Conflict and Compensatory Education in New York City: More Effective Schools and the Clinic for Learning; 3 Community, Race, and Curriculum in Detroit: The Northern High School Walkout; 4 Race and Community in a Black Led City: The Case of Detroit and the Mayoral Takeover of the Board of Education; 5 Educational Partnerships, Urban School Reform, and the Building of Community

6 Educational Partnerships and Community: Education Action Zones and ""Third Way"" Educational Reform in Britain7 Smaller Learning Communities and the Reorganization of the Comprehensive High School; Epilogue: Community in a Cosmopolitan World; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book asserts that efforts to reform schools, particularly urban schools, are events that engender a host of issues and conflicts that have been interpreted through the conceptual lens of community.