Curriculum, Community, and Urban School Reform [Paperback]

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.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.

This valuable book explores the conflicting meanings of community - exclusive and inclusive, tribal and cosmopolitan - that have been embedded in American urban school reform efforts in the last half century. - David Labaree, Stanford University

Franklin provides a thoughtful discussion of community, with historical and contemporary accounts of its complexity, especially in connection with educational problems. His treatment of the dilemmas facing city schools reveals the political tensions that make reform difficult. In the end, there can be little doubt that finding common ground in a shared sense of purpose is essential to enabling troubled urban institutions to succeed. - John L. Rury, Professor of Education (ELPS), University of Kansas

Franklin is the foremost historian of community in the U.S.Compellingly written and based on meticulous research, his nuanced analysis of urban school reform reawakens in us a sense of belonging while it fortifies our commitment to providing education for the good of all people. - Lynn Fendler, Department lƒ%