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Contents Forward 6 Preface & Acknowledgements 9 1. Introduction: Reforming our Most Troubled Urban High Schools 17 The History of Dorchester High School 1945 to 2006 2. It Takes a Community to Destroy a School: Dorchester High 1945 to 1970 25 3. The Fragmentation of Culture and Community: The Long, Slow Decline of Dorchester High School 1969 to 1982 41 4. Help is on the Way: The Community Comes to Dorchester High School 1982 to 1989 63 5. Reports from the Circus: The Community Goes After the School Committee 1982 to 1991 83 6. Back to Square one at Dorchester High School: 1989 to 1995 95 7. The Community Returns to Dorchester High School: 1996 to 1999 116 8. Betrayals and Failures: The Last Years of Dorchester High School: 1999 to 2003 131 9. Learning how to Educate Together: The Hope and Promise of Small High Schools 2003 to 2006 166 Lessons Learned for Urban Education 10. A Conceptual Framework for Enacting Cultural Reform in Struggling Urban High Schools: Re-engaging the Community 206 11. School Culture and School Partnerships 231 12. Consider the Challenges of Urban Adolescents 263 13. The Ecological Systems Model and the Development of the School Leader 286 14. School Values and Moral Authority 299
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Urban high schools -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Case studies.
Education, Urban -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Case studies.
School improvement programs -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Case studies.