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Download full textFine, Michelle – 1992
This essay describes charter school development and the 3-year Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) Schools Collaborative, which worked with educators and parents to transform comprehensive high schools, increase student outcomes, and establish teacher engagement and parental involvement. Charter schools (intellectual and emotional communities of adults,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Fine, Michelle – Equity and Choice, 1993
Parents are being invited to step in to help improve public education, but they enter with neither resources nor power. Real parental involvement requires commitment to organizing parents and restructuring schools, as well as inventing rich versions of diverse educational democracies of difference. Schools must function like meaningful…
Descriptors: Democracy, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
