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.

Autorentext
BARRY M. FRANKLIN is Professor of Secondary Education at Utah State University, USA.

Inhalt
Community and Curriculum: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Urban School Reform Community Conflict and Compensatory Education in New York City: More Effective Schools and the Clinic for Learning Community, Race, and Curriculum in Detroit: The Northern High School Walkout Race, Restructuring, and Educational Reform: The Mayoral Takeover of the Detroit Public Schools Educational Partnerships, Urban School Reform, and the Building of Community Educational Partnerships and Community: Education Action Zones and 'Third Way' Educational Reform in Britain Smaller Learning Communities and the Reorganization of the Comprehensive High School Epilogue: Community in a Cosmopolitan World.