New hope for urban high schools : cultural reform, moral leadership, and community partnership / Lisa Gonsalves and John Leonard ; foreword by Lee Teitel.
"The authors illustrate the history of high school reform and develop a case for the necessity of cultural reform by taking an intimate look at one very typical urban high school - Dorchester High School in Boston. Dorchester High faced trends, policies, and challenges similar to those of high...
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Westport, Conn. :
Praeger,
[2007]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : reforming our most troubled urban high schools
- Demographics, discrimination, and decline : the destruction of Dorchester High 1945 to 1970
- The fragmentation of culture and community : the long, slow decline of Dorchester High School 1969 to 1982
- Help is on the way : the community comes to Dorchester High School 1982 to 1989
- Reports from the circus : the community goes after the school committee 1982 to 1991
- Back to square one at Dorchester High School 1989 to 1995
- The community returns to Dorchester High School 1996 to 1999
- Betrayals and betrayals : the last years of Dorchester High School : 1999 to 2003
- Learning how to educate together : the hope and promise of small high schools 2003 to 2006
- A conceptual framework for enacting cultural reform in struggling urban high schools : re-engaging the community
- School culture and school partnerships
- Consider the challenges of urban adolescents
- The ecological systems model and the development of the school leader
- School values and moral authority.