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Direct linkShatkin, 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
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
Porter, 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
Peer reviewedMurray, Gloria J. – Equity and Excellence in Education, 1993
To enhance reform under the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), the University of Louisville has initiated the Housing and Neighborhood Development Strategies (HANDS) project linking education reform with the Louisville community. HANDS is an innovative and pragmatic partnership of businesses, government, universities, the school system, and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College School Cooperation, Community Relations, Disadvantaged Youth
