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Perrone, Vito, Ed. – 1998
The Annenberg Rural Challenge is a national effort to revitalize rural communities and schools and their long-standing values of community, democracy, and care for the natural environment. This collection of five essays presents a number of themes that are central to the Rural Challenge's philosophy. "Bringing It All Back Home: Reclaiming the…
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Development, Democracy, Educational Change
Leue, Mary M., Ed. – 1992
Beginning in the mid-1960s, thousands of small alternative schools sprang up across the United States and Canada. These schools varied widely in programs and policies, but common factors among them were a disenchantment with conventional schooling, a desire to reform education, and (frequently) the belief that schools should be controlled by the…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Community Control, Community Schools, Educational Change
Everhart, Robert B., Ed. – 1982
The following 14 essays consider relationships among schooling, education, and the state; alternatives to existing systems; and educating minorities and the disadvantaged: (1) "Growing Up Blighted: Reflections on the 'Secret Power' in the American Experience" (C. Burgess); (2) "The Evolving Political Structure of American…
Descriptors: Community Control, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Educational Legislation