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| What sense does it make to try to reform urban schools while the communities around them stagnate or collapse? Conversely, can community building and development efforts succeed in revitalizing inner city neighborhoods if the public schools within them continue to fail their students? The fates of urban schools and communities are linked, yet school reformers and community builders typically act as if they are not. More recently, a wide range of initiatives has emerged that seek to forge collaborations between community-based organizations and schools. In this article I will elaborate an argument for a new, community-oriented, approach to education reform. I outline a conceptual approach to understanding school-community collaboration and develop a typology of the major approaches linking community organizations to school improvement that have emerged in the United States. Drawing upon my own and others’ fieldwork, I illustrate the different types of school-community collaborations with key examples. I conclude the article with a discussion of the possibilities of a new approach to education reform that links it theoretically and practically to social change in our nation’s cities. |
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| Warren, Mark. "Communities and Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA,, Aug 14, 2004 Online <.PDF>. 2008-09-06 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p109454_index.html> |
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| Warren, M. R. (2004, Aug) "Communities and Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA, Online <.PDF> Retrieved 2008-09-06 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p109454_index.html |
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Abstract: What sense does it make to try to reform urban schools while the communities around them stagnate or collapse? Conversely, can community building and development efforts succeed in revitalizing inner city neighborhoods if the public schools within them continue to fail their students? The fates of urban schools and communities are linked, yet school reformers and community builders typically act as if they are not. More recently, a wide range of initiatives has emerged that seek to forge collaborations between community-based organizations and schools. In this article I will elaborate an argument for a new, community-oriented, approach to education reform. I outline a conceptual approach to understanding school-community collaboration and develop a typology of the major approaches linking community organizations to school improvement that have emerged in the United States. Drawing upon my own and others’ fieldwork, I illustrate the different types of school-community collaborations with key examples. I conclude the article with a discussion of the possibilities of a new approach to education reform that links it theoretically and practically to social change in our nation’s cities. |
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| Document Type: | .PDF | | Page count: | 18 | | Word count: | 5899 | | Text sample: | | Communities and Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform For Presentation at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association Mark R. Warren Associate Professor of Education Harvard Graduate School of Education mark_warren@harvard.edu January 15 2004 I. Introduction/Overview What sense does it make to try to reform urban schools while the communities around them stagnate or collapse? Conversely can community building and development efforts succeed in revitalizing inner city neighborhoods if the public schools within them continue | | for Urban School Reform. Schorr Jonathan. 2002. Hard Lessons: The Promise of an Inner City charter School. New York: Ballantine Books. Shirley Dennis. 1997. Community Organizing for Urban School Reform. Austin: University of Texas Press. Shirley Dennis. 2002. Valley Interfaith and School Reform. Austin: University of Texas Press. Stone Clarence et al. 2001. Building Civic Capacity: The Politics of Reforming Urban Schools. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. Warren Mark R. 2001. Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize American |
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