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- catalog abstract ""Community Action for School Reform tells the story of a partnership between Baltimore community activists and a university as they created an organization to improve neighborhood schools. The book examines the challenges they faced, such as persuading community members that they had the necessary knowledge to do something about the schools, starting and sustaining an organization, conducting and using research, engaging the school system, and funding their work."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b13090181.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Community Action for School Reform tells the story of a partnership between Baltimore community activists and a university as they created an organization to improve neighborhood schools. The book examines the challenges they faced, such as persuading community members that they had the necessary knowledge to do something about the schools, starting and sustaining an organization, conducting and using research, engaging the school system, and funding their work."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1: Introduction -- School reform and educational improvement: challenges and responses -- Attachment and knowledge -- Building the education field: getting parents, schools, and communities together -- Baltimore, the schools, and the southeast education task force -- 2: Research as a way of getting started -- Getting started, getting bearings -- 3: Participation -- Creating the southeast education task force -- Organizing networks for southeast education: engaging the school system -- Organizing networks for southeast education: connecting with parents and community institutions -- 4: Action -- Doing something -- Education and the empowerment zone: participation in the service of action -- 5: Research as a means to action -- Acting as a way of knowing: action research -- Knowing as a means to acting: research for action -- 6: Money -- Money matters: the costs of participation, research, and action -- 7: Tensions between attachment and knowledge -- Realities and fantasies in university--community partnerships -- Why community-school partnerships are unlikely -- Building networks in turbulent fields: tension between attachment and knowledge -- 8: Lessons and conclusions -- Evaluating the southeast education task force -- Can community action reform schools or improve education?".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-289) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 297 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0791457591 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0791457605 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albany : State University of New York Press,".
- catalog spatial "Maryland Baltimore".
- catalog subject "371.19/09752/6 21".
- catalog subject "Community and school Maryland Baltimore Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Education, Urban Maryland Baltimore Case studies.".
- catalog subject "LC221.3.B35 B38 2003".
- catalog subject "School improvement programs Maryland Baltimore Case studies.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1: Introduction -- School reform and educational improvement: challenges and responses -- Attachment and knowledge -- Building the education field: getting parents, schools, and communities together -- Baltimore, the schools, and the southeast education task force -- 2: Research as a way of getting started -- Getting started, getting bearings -- 3: Participation -- Creating the southeast education task force -- Organizing networks for southeast education: engaging the school system -- Organizing networks for southeast education: connecting with parents and community institutions -- 4: Action -- Doing something -- Education and the empowerment zone: participation in the service of action -- 5: Research as a means to action -- Acting as a way of knowing: action research -- Knowing as a means to acting: research for action -- 6: Money -- Money matters: the costs of participation, research, and action -- 7: Tensions between attachment and knowledge -- Realities and fantasies in university--community partnerships -- Why community-school partnerships are unlikely -- Building networks in turbulent fields: tension between attachment and knowledge -- 8: Lessons and conclusions -- Evaluating the southeast education task force -- Can community action reform schools or improve education?".
- catalog title "Community action for school reform / Howell S. Baum.".
- catalog type "Case studies. fast".
- catalog type "text".