Curriculum, Community, and Urban School Reform

by Franklin, Barry M.

• ISBN13: 9780230338456
• ISBN10: 0230338453
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Barry M. Franklin's new work uses the concept of community as a lens for interpreting urban school reform since 1960. Focusing on the curriculum and employing case studies, he applies the concept to reform initiatives in a number of city school systems. Included are compensatory education, community control, mayoral takeovers, educational partnerships, and smaller learning communities. This comprehensive work concludes with a consideration of how we can employ the concept of cosmopolitanism to change the idea of community for a twenty-first century, globalized world and its schools.

Author Biography

Barry M. Franklin is Professor of Education in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership at Utah State University and an Adjunct Professor in Utah State’s Department of History.

Table of Contents

Community and Curriculum:  A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Urban School Reform * Community Conflict and Compensatory Education in New York City: More Effective Schools and the Clinic for Learning * Community, Race, and Curriculum in Detroit:  The Northern High School Walkout * Race, Restructuring, and Educational Reform:  The Mayoral Takeover of the Detroit Public Schools * Educational Partnerships, Urban School Reform, and the Building of Community * Educational Partnerships and Community:  Education Action Zones and “Third Way” Educational Reform in Britain * Epilogue:  Reforming the American High School for the 21st Century:  The Case of Smaller Learning Communities