Building Community in Schools (Jossey Bass Education Series)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: September 17, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780787950446
Subjects: Organization & management of education; Philosophy of education; Schools; Education / Teaching; Education; Administration - General; Aims & Objectives; Students & Student Life; Education / General
First sentence: Irwin Blumer, school superintendent in Newton, Massachusettes, neatly captures the complexities involved in creating real change: "Much of what passes for school reform is superficial and ultimately fails because the difficulty of the task-institutional change-is underestimated.