Community Control over Educational Goals and Policy
last updated July 2016
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Some Theoretical Considerations

Carl Rogers, Freedom to Learn

Duane Campbell's Institute for Democracy and Education

Polly Greenberg (1969) on why poor people need to control their own school boards

Ed Whitfield, Diversity: What Schools Leave Out

Deborah Meier’s Six Alternative Assumptions to high-stakes testing

Donald Arnstine, Democracy and the Arts of Schooling (selected parts from Google Books)

Howard Zinn, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

William Domhoff, Who Rules America?

Deborah Meier, In Schools We Trust

Jean Anyon's , Radical Possibilities

Jonathan Kozol,The Night is Dark and I am Far from Home   Out of print (which is the only reason I refer you to Amazon)

And Practical Applications

In the Classroom:

• Ann Berlak and Sekani Moyenda, Taking it Personally: Racism in the Classroom from Kindergarten to College
• Nancie Atwell, In the Middle: Writing, Reading, Learning with Adolescents

Outside the Classroom:

• The story of how the Oakland community almost (again) gained control of its schools. 
• Community Schools
• Small Schools as promoted by the Coalition of Essential Schools(CES) are based on Ten Common Principles:  1. Learning to use one's mind well   2. Less is More, depth over coverage   3. Goals apply to all students   4. Personalization   5. Student-as-worker, teacher-as-coach   6. Demonstration of mastery   7. A tone of decency and trust   8. Commitment to the entire school   9. Resources dedicated to teaching and learning   10. Democracy and equity