Struggling with Their Histories: Economic Decline and School Improvement in Four Rural Southeastern School Districts

by Alan J. DeYoung

This volume explores the social, economic and political histories of four primarily rural and poor school systems in the American Southeast. Part of the research upon which the book is based came from a three year evaluation of OERI sponsored schoolimprovement efforts undertaken by the Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL). AEL was interested in helping these districts improve their schools via a school-community partnership model. Some effort is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893918172
• ISBN13: 9780893918170
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"