Can public schools still educate America's children, particularly in poor and working class communities? Many advocates of school reform have called for dismant

Can public schools still educate America's children, particularly in poor and working class communities? Many advocates of school reform have called for dismant

In his acclaimed bestselling book, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Robert Putnam described a thirty-year decline in America's soc

With the election of a community organizer as president of the United States, the time is right to evaluate the current state of community organizing and the ef

This book shows how school improvement efforts are often undermined by the changing conditions around schools, as well as by some of the very policies and progr