Community Development and School Reform (Advances in Research and Theories of School Management and Educational Policy) (Advances in Research and ... Perspectives in Family Research)

Hardbound. A connection between educational reform and the renewal or regeneration of individual schools is the newest "hot topic" in public schooling. This book is the first to examine critically and to provide some early case study examples of linkages between community-development activities and school improvement.

The collection of pieces in this volume explore a range of key features in an improved understanding of school-community connection. The contributions include some significant new theorizing around restoring a "sense-of-place" to the neighborhood school and around "partnering" between schools and their neighborhoods in a community-development relationship. Additional chapters present findings from some important case studies of efforts to link community development and school reform; while other chapters address new considerations and challenges for school administrators in leading the school-community relationship. Finally, there are e