Curriculum, Community, and Urban School Reform
, by Franklin, Barry M.- ISBN: 9780230612341 | 0230612342
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2/15/2010
In this book, Barry Franklin uses the concept of community as a lens for interpreting urban school reform since 1960. Focusing on the curriculum, he explores the notion of community and then in a series of case studies, applies that concept to reform initiatives in a number of city school systems. Included are such reforms as compensatory education, community control, mayoral takeovers, educational partnerships, and smaller learning communities. This comprehensive work concludes with an epilogue that considers how we can employ the concept of cosmopolitanism to change the idea of community for a 21st century, globalized world and its schools.