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Shatkin, Gavin; Gershberg, Alec Ian – Urban Education, 2007
This article builds and explores the hypothesis that parent and community participation in school governance can have positive impacts on community development by fostering improvements in school performance and school-community relations and by acting as a catalyst for collective action around community-development issues. It does so through case…
Descriptors: Community Development, Parent Participation, Community Involvement, School Based Management
Sexton, Robert F. – Equity and Choice, 1993
Presents observations and lessons drawn from two years of Kentucky school reform. Implementing the Kentucky School Reform Act of 1990 teaches that reforming schools also requires addressing the ways in which communities raise their children. Community work, with parent and student participation, improves family conditions and political decision…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Involvement, Decision Making, Democracy