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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Bibliographic Details
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
Table of Contents:
  • 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