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Martinez-Cosio, Maria – Education and Urban Society, 2010
This article presents an analysis of a Latino parent group and an African American parent group in California who struggled to engage with a contentious urban school reform. Using Bourdieu's cultural capital framework, the study focuses on the institutional responses to parent involvement, and the inequality in access that occurs as capital from…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Restructuring, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
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Stringfield, Sam; Datnow, Amanda – Education and Urban Society, 1998
Presents an overview of the articles in this special issue and defines scaling up and externally developed school reform. Key elements for successful scaling up are highlighted. (MMU)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Design, Program Implementation
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Smith, Lana; Ross, Steve; McNelis, Mary; Squires, Martha; Wasson, Rebecca; Maxwell, Sheryl; Weddle, Karen; Nath, Leslie; Grehan, Anna; Buggey, Tom – Education and Urban Society, 1998
Describes the characteristics, implementation, and evaluation of eight school restructuring designs in an impoverished, urban, district in 1995 in Memphis (Tennessee). Type of program design, quality of professional training, resources, principal leadership, and teacher support affected the restructuring. (MMU)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Experimental Schools
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Jehl, Jeanne; Kirst, Michael W. – Education and Urban Society, 1993
Discusses ways schools must restructure to provide school-linked services. Education personnel must learn to work with other agencies and to expand the boundaries of their efforts. Practical implications of school-linked services are illustrated via reference to the New Beginnings program of the San Diego (California) city schools. (SLD)
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Ancillary School Services, Children, Cooperative Planning