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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
Fine, Michelle, Ed.; Somerville, Janis I., Ed. – 1998
School reform leaders from Chicago (Illinois), Denver (Colorado), New York (New York), Seattle (Washington), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), and Los Angeles (California) created the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform to work to improve urban education so that all urban youth are well-prepared for postsecondary education, work, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, Costs, Educational Change
Ayers, William, Ed.; Klonsky, Michael, Ed.; Lyon, Gabrielle H., Ed. – 2000
Written by major players in the small schools movement, this collection of essays points to the ways that school restructuring strategies connect to the ongoing pursuit of social justice. Activists, scholars, practitioners, and theorists review how and why small schools work for students, provide thick descriptions of the small schools strategy in…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Educational Philosophy
Rasell, Edith, Ed.; Rothstein, Richard, Ed. – 1993
This book presents a summary of school-choice issues, and is organized around a 1992 seminar entitled "Choice: What Role in American Education?" Each part presents a set of conference papers, followed by discussants' remarks and excerpts from audience discussion. The introduction summarizes the papers' positions and conclusions. Participants…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational Vouchers
