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Urban Education

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Douglas, Leonard	1
Foley, Fred J.	1

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The Failure of Reform: Community Control and the Philadelphia Public Schools

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Foley, Fred J. – Urban Education, 1976

Argues that the principal cause of failure has been due to a lack of sufficient power to overcome the opposition of groups who depended upon and actively defended the historically centralized and professionally dominated system. (Author/AM)

Descriptors: Accountability, Community Control, Community Involvement, Decentralization

The Community School Philosophy and the Inner-City School: A Challenge for Citizens and Educators

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Douglas, Leonard – Urban Education, 1971

A discussion of the educational problems of big-city school systems which defines the community school concept or philosophy, and emphasizes the role of an energetic school-home partnership composed of the community, parents, leaders, and educators. (JM)

Descriptors: Community Control, Community Involvement, Community Schools, Family School Relationship