Strategies and conditions for community-based school reform: An analysis.

摘要

Schools in the United States face mounting challenges in maintaining quality, as resources from government bodies such as funding continually decrease. Community organizing is one way that these communities can enact positive change and accountability in their local schools. This thesis analyzes published case studies that document successful community-based school reform efforts. I delineate three strategies community actors employ to make their efforts successful. In a further step of analysis, I examine how particular strategies proved particularly conducive to the enabling conditions apparent in the communities in which they were pursued.