Decline+and+Building+of+Communities

It is not possible to have strong schools in unhealthy communities (Page XI).
Existing problems have their origins in the past (page 275).

==Up through the 1940s, adults were much more significant in the lives of adolescents than was the peer group. ... The peer group, especially the adolescent peer group, is more influential. ... The young have become increasingly independent of their elders (Page 12).==

==The young have more access to information and parents, grandparents, churches are losing the control they traditionally had. Traditional power and control is diminishing and peer group influence is increasing (Page 13).==

Use electronic networks as a means of generating more parental involvement in the life of schools and perhaps even in the lives of their own children (page 284).

Digital learning can provide for the education of children, and .. new technologies are a fundamental reality in our lives (page 284).

==Parents and teachers have much in common, in that both, supposedly, wish things to occur for the best interests of the child; but, in fact, parents and teachers usually live in a condition of mutual distrust and enmity (Page 103).==