As community schools grow in numbers, this article argues that the model needs to be interrogated in order to address the power imbalances that exist between non-dominant families and schools. This paper draws on a citywide study of parent interviews as well as public documents and interviews with key community school leaders in Baltimore to…

"Focuses on the recent school movements of Boston, Massachusetts in order to explore the backgrounds and movement careers of both black and white women to whom school politics beckoned with opportunities for leadership. This study indicates that the education conflict in Boston has been a vehicle for women's participation and…

This study located significant patterns within the thought systems of sixty-three influential leaders in three southern California school districts and discussed the implications for school policy. (Author/SF)

A study, made of how a southern city school system successfully complied with court orders to integrate, found that social change and innovation in school desegregation were directly attributable to the elitist nature of leadership and decision-making in Southern City.'' (Author/JM)