How to walk to schoo [ blueprint for a neighborhood school renaissance

Here is the story of motivated neighborhood parents organizing an entire community to help transform a challenged urban school into one of Chicago's best. Author Jacqueline Edelberg, one of the neighborhood moms, provide an accessible and honest blueprint for reclaiming the public schools our c...

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Main Authors: Edelberg, Jacqueline , 1967- (Author), Kurland, Susan , 1945- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md : Rowman & Littlefield Education , c2009
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Online Access:NetLibrary

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245 1 0 |a How to walk to schoo [  |h electronic resource] :   |b blueprint for a neighborhood school renaissance   |c Jacqueline Edelberg and Susan Kurland 
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500 |a Description based on print version record 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references 
505 0 |a 1. Dream a future : identify opportunities -- 2. Chemistry : capitalize on desire -- 3. Support systems : contract services -- 4. Academics : raise the bar -- 5. Sell the dream : rebrand and reposition -- 6. Fundraising : look beyond a climate of care -- 7. The Nettelhorst blueprint 
520 |a Here is the story of motivated neighborhood parents organizing an entire community to help transform a challenged urban school into one of Chicago's best. Author Jacqueline Edelberg, one of the neighborhood moms, provide an accessible and honest blueprint for reclaiming the public schools our children deserve.--[book jacket] 
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700 1 |a Kurland, Susan ,   |d 1945- ,   |e author 
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