Parental and community empowerment: The Chicago model

Reinterpreting Urban School Reform: Have Urban Schools Failed, or Has the Reform Movement Failed Urban Schools?

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 209-228

  Nakagawa, Kathryn ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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