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Bartelt, D. W. (1997). The macroecology of educational outcomes. In G. D. Haertel & M. C. Wang (Eds.), Coordination, cooperation and collaboration (pp. 108-126). Philadelphia, PA: The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory at Temple University.

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This chapter discusses the author's position that "it is the changing make-up of our cities, not necessarily the schools themselves, which accounts for much of the failure of our educational system" (Kantor & Breazel, 1993). The major premises are: education policy can not exist in a vacuum and be effective; schools should be the focal point in a network of family, community, and economic relationships; and educators and community leaders should recognize the "intractability of the nexus between family structure and education and reinforce each others' efforts." Based on an analysis of information on 53 cities, the author suggests strategies that school, social welfare, childcare, housing, and economic leaders can use to work together. The author's conclusion that the "performance of a city's schools reflects its political economy and the relative strength of its opportunity structures" is reasonable and supported with his review of the information from the cities he observed.