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001 2009046864
003 DLC
005 20091113141319.0
008 091106s2010 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009046864
020 $a9780807750582 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a9780807750599 (hardcover : alk paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aLB3012.5$b.S77 2010
082 00 $a371.2/07$222
100 1 $aStrike, Kenneth A.
245 10 $aSmall schools and strong communities :$ba third way of school reform /$cKenneth A. Strike ; foreword by Mary Anne Raywid.
260 $aNew York :$bTeachers College, Columbia University,$c2010.
263 $a1002
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: community, small schools, and school reform -- Authentic learning and community -- School reform: old paradigms in older bottles? -- Community and small schools: a way forward? -- Education and community -- Learning, belonging, and school reform: -- Why community is necessary and why community is hard -- Why community is necessary -- Why community is hard -- Community and the communitarian critique of liberalism -- The "bads" of community -- Schools that are communities and schools that are not -- Schools as communities -- Community and normation -- Community and shared educational projects -- The four c's of community -- The structural conditions of community -- Community of practice and intellectual community -- Community and the core goals of education -- The idea of a practice and the transformative capacity of practices -- Creating communities of practice -- Democratic community: creating a polity -- If we want democratic schools what do we want? -- The governance of democratic school communities -- Democratic communities and common goods -- Equal opportunity and democratic inclusion -- Democracy, choice, and the common school -- Conclusion: democratic schools and a social contract -- Small schools, community and school reform -- Small schools: size or community? -- Research on small schools -- What is a small school? -- Small schools, personalization and community -- Policies for small schools: scaling up, keeping on -- Scaling up -- Keeping on: policies for thriving school communities -- Summary -- Community and small schools: -- A new paradigm for school reform -- The idea of a paradigm -- Paradigms for reform: standards and choice -- Motivation, governance and more -- Community and accountability -- The common view of accountability: why it is dysfunctional -- Accountability for community -- If wishes were fishes: -- Conclusions, doubts, and the big picture -- A few conclusions -- Silver bullets and the big picture.
650 0 $aSchool size.
650 0 $aEducational change.
650 0 $aSchool improvement programs.