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How to walk to school : blueprint for a neighborhood school renaissance / Jacqueline Edelberg and Susan Kurland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edelberg, Jacqueline, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School improvement programs--Illinois--Chicago--Case studies.
- School improvement programs.
- Community and school--Illinois--Chicago--Case studies.
- Community and school.
- Urban schools--Illinois--Chicago--Case studies.
- Urban schools.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Education, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How to Walk to School is the story of motivated parents galvanizing and then organizing an entire community to take a leap of faith, transforming a challenged urban school into one of Chicago's best, virtually overnight. The fate of public education is not beyond our control. In How to Walk to School, Susan Kurland, an entrepreneurial principal, and Jacqueline Edelberg, a neighborhood mom, provide a blueprint for reclaiming the great public schoo
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Afterword; Appendix A; Appendix B; About the Authors; A Call to Action; Notes; Photospread
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-4422-0000-6
- 9786612521980
- 1-282-52198-5
- 1-4422-0002-2
- OCLC:
- 434006474
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