Connecting community development and urban school reform

THIS CHAPTER MAKES THE CASE for building a bridge to link together the community development and the educational reform movements in distressed urban communities, and it discusses the barriers that must be removed before policy makers, practitioners, and activists create a new model of community development and school reform. It is divided into three parts.The first part discusses the structural limits of the community development movement and why it failed to incorporate school reform into its approach to neighborhood revitalization; the second part discusses efforts to forge a new model of community development. The final segment makes the case for connecting the community development neighborhood movement with the school reform movement.