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Zimmer, Amy; Mediratta, Kavitha Ed. – Institute for Education and Social Policy, 2004
Spurred by the economic boom of the late 1990s and a decades-old national standards movement that increased both the transparency of assessment results and the awareness of urban public school failure, communities across the country are turning to community organizing as a strategy for improving public education. As organizations confront the…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Accountability, Community Action