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Early childhood education--Recent research has shown that
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Betty Deshler and John L. Erlich discuss citizen involvement and
attempt to analyze community involvement and its effect on the
professional and whose fault it is when community involvement fails. l
They state that school boards, administrators, teachers, parents,
and students are attempting to struggle through the development of viable
patterns of citizen involvement and, in some cases, control.
The growing
role of citizen involvement in the schools is taking many forms. We see
citizen involvement in selection of principals in students attending
lSetty Deshler and John L. Erlich, "Citizen Involvement: Evolution
in the Revolution," Phi Delta K.appan (November, 1972), p, 173.