Intro -- Community Action for School Reform -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Introduction -- 1. School Reform and Educational Improvement: Challenges and Responses -- 2. Attachment and Knowledge -- 3. Building the Education Field: Getting Parents, Schools, and Communities Together -- 4. Baltimore, the Schools, and the Southeast Education Task Force -- Part 2: Research as a Way of Getting Started -- 5. Getting Started, Getting Bearings -- Part 3: Participation -- 6. Creating the Southeast Education Task Force -- 7. Organizing Networks for Southeast Education: Engaging the School System -- 8. Organizing Networks for Southeast Education: Connecting with Parents and Community Institutions -- Part 4: Action -- 9. Doing Something -- 10. Education and Empowerment Zone: Participation in the Service of Action -- Part 5: Research as a Means to Action -- 11. Acting as a Way of Knowing: Action Research -- 12. Knowing as a Means to Acting: Research for Action -- Part 6: Money -- 13. Money Matters: The Costs of Participation, Research, and Action -- Part 7: Tensions between Attachment and Knowledge -- 14. Realities and Fantasies in University-Community Partnerships -- 15. Why Community-School Partnerships Are Unlikely -- 16. Building Networks in Turbulent Fields: Tension between Attachment and Knowledge -- Part 8: Lessons and Conclusions -- 17. Evaluating the Southeast |