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This edited collection discusses the efforts of teachers, parents and administrators to conteract the alienation and intellectual disengagement which they perceive to be present in many American schools. Educators working in some of the best alternative elementary and secondary schools across America describe their attempts to create systems which will educate diverse populations in their customs and heritages and to make schools into places characterized by intellectual vitality, personal support and strong connections to their local social environment.

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The text is recommended for courses on educational change, restructuring, community relations, and educational policy and analysis. In addition, it makes a good addition as a reference and professional source for one's own library. <br>- Research and Reflection: A Journal of Educational Praxis <br>

The text is recommended for courses on educational change, restructuring, community relations, and educational policy and analysis. In addition, it makes a good addition as a reference and professional source for one's own library. - Research and Reflection: A Journal of Educational Praxis

The text is recommended for courses on educational change, restructuring, community relations, and educational policy and analysis. In addition, it makes a good addition as a reference and professional source for one's own library. - Research and Reflection: A Journal of Educational Praxis

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Gregory A. Smith is Assistant Professor at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Educationand Environment: Learning to Live with Limits and coauthor of Reducing the Risk: Schools as Communities ofSupport.

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