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Direct linkHong, Soo – Harvard Education Press, 2011
How can low-income, non-English-speaking parents become advocates, leaders, and role models in their children's schools? "A Cord of Three Strands" offers a close study of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, a grassroots organization on the northwest side of Chicago, whose work on parent engagement has drawn national attention. The…
Descriptors: Parent School Relationship, Parent Participation, Organizations (Groups), Urban Schools
Skinner, Elizabeth A., Ed.; Garreton, Maria Teresa, Ed.; Schultz, Brian D., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2011
"Grow Your Own Teachers" describes the evolution of a local school reform movement in Chicago that now serves as a model for change in schools and teacher preparation programs across the country. Grounded in the grassroots organizing tradition, the Grow Your Own (GYO) teacher initiative involves collaboration between community-based…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Community Leaders, Urban Schools, Schools of Education
Peer reviewedBixby, Janet S., Ed.; Pace, Judith L., Ed. – SUNY Press, 2008
This book offers a groundbreaking examination of citizenship education programs that serve contemporary youth in schools and communities across the United States. These programs include social studies classes and curricula, school governance, and community-based education efforts. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Social Studies, Governance, Community Education
Marciniak, Ed – 1981
This report describes residents' efforts to generate urban change and arrest the decline of their community, Edgewater, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. The report also examines how events in Edgewater affected and were affected by developments in Uptown (the adjoining predominantly commercial district) and in the Winthrop-Kenmore Corridor that…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Development, Community Influence, Community Involvement
