@inbook{10.7864/j.ctt1287bdh.13,
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt1287bdh.13},
 abstract = {More than thirty years ago, when he was a middle school principal in Philadelphia, Paul Vance was intrigued by Bruno Bettelheim’sThe Children of the Dream, a study of communal child rearing on an Israeli kibbutz and its implications for U.S. education. So Vance joined colleagues in discussions about whether some of the commune’s methods might be applied to Philadelphia schools. “In those days,” he recalls, “it was evident to some of us … that the schools were replacing the family as primary care provider for kids, particularly for poor kids.”¹Today, as former superintendent of schools in Washington, D.C.,},
 author = {NOEL EPSTEIN},
 booktitle = {Who's in Charge Here?: The Tangled Web of School Governance and Policy},
 pages = {256--288},
 publisher = {Brookings Institution Press},
 title = {The American Kibbutz?: Managing the School’s Family Role},
 year = {2004}
}