BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

is available on these projects, this report concentrates on their
use today and the developmental changes since, they opened their
doors to the public.)
A new situation which most school districts in the United States
are facing today: shrinking enrolments and declining economic
resources. This section describes the fast-changing context in
which the community schools movement has gained new territories
for vastly different reasons than those which led to the large
integrated community school complexes of the 60's or even the citywide
models of the late 60's and early 70's. ,For school districts
faced with decreasing enrolments and empty schools the introduction
of new uses and users to schools often becomes a matter of survival
rather than ideology.
5. Part Two reports on the neighbourhood and city-wide models, in particular
the SAND project and the Everywhere School in Hartford, Connecticut,
and the community school concept (including various models and programs)
in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Both differ from the earlier models in their
stress on the dispersion of educational and community facilities.
Short descriptions and evaluations of the community school movements in
New Haven and Flint (as some of the oldest examples of city-wide community
'school concepts) and East Windsor (as an example of a smaller but growing
community) have been added to show organic growth patterns as well as
interventionist approaches to planning co-ordinated school and community
facilities on a city-wide scale.
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
.6. Since many features of today's programs and plans are based on
earlier models, a short history of the community school movement in the
United States seems a necessary pre-requisite for a- full understanding
of the situation today. The idea of integrating "academic" and "social"
education has its roots in the very American conviction that man is an
-educable creature, that, through a far reaching education that deals with
life's demands, he will not only be better off individually but a more
worthy and useful member of society as well. From it's beginnings, however,
America has recognised the fundamental conflict between the individual's
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