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ravitch, Diane – Commentary, 1972
After all the money spent, jobs allocated, new machinery and programs introduced, after all the publicity and conflict, and after all the bold rhetoric about the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Demonstration School District, New York City, the children of the district cannot read as well today as they did five years ago. (Author)
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Involvement, Community Relations, Decentralization
Download full textPorter, Maureen K. – 1996
This dissertation examines how stakeholders in an Appalachian Kentucky high school addressed educational problems that they targeted for reform. Set against the backdrop of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), this ethnographic study describes the challenges of effectively coupling top-down state mandates with bottom-up advocacy and…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Control, Community Relations, Educational Change
Porter, Maureen K. – 1996
This dissertation, which won the Dissertation of the Year Award, examines how stakeholders in an Appalachian Kentucky high school addressed educational problems that they had targeted for reform. Set against the backdrop of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), this ethnographic study describes the challenges of effectively coupling top-down…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Control, Community Relations, Educational Change
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Direct linkPorter, Maureen K. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1996
A year-long ethnographic investigation examined how stakeholders in an Appalachian Kentucky high school addressed educational problems that they had targeted for reform while resisting state priorities and policies mandated in the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA). Contrasts KERA objectives with cultural themes prominent in this poor…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Control, Community Relations, Educational Change
