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Article: Common Purpose.
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- School Administrator
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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In Common Purpose, Lisbeth Schorr provides valuable insights for school leaders by focusing attention on the multifaceted and interdependent social and economic problems that so profoundly influence the educational process and handicap student achievement.
Schorr, a lecturer in social medicine at Harvard University and an authority on disadvantaged children, believes schools must escape from their institutional and cultural isolation and insulation if they hope to serve the third of the nation's preschool-age children growing up in poverty or in economically marginal circumstances. Educational leaders must become more proactive in building the comprehensive ...