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Keith Wayne Trahan – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Schools serve both to connect and separate people within society. Therefore, the landscape of school reform presents an opportunity to explicate the opposing forces of connectedness and competition that are entrenched in twenty-first century society. It can serve as a laboratory in which to study foundational social issues. This study is an…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Social Attitudes, Community Attitudes, Alienation
Fein, Leonard J. – Saturday Rev, 1970
An argument is presented in favor of adopting community control of local schools. This would place the schools in the hands of the particular ethnic group most heavily represented within a given system and would prevent suppression of minority group cultures for the sake of prosletyzing middle class ideas. (CK)
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Control, Community Schools, Educational Change
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Nissen, Myra H. – National Elementary Principal, 1974
Examines, by means of interviews with school principals, some of the problems involved in decentralization of the New York City school system. (WM)
Descriptors: Community Control, Decentralization, Educational Change, Elementary Schools