Contents *Introduction *Limits of Modern Education, William K. Cummings *Last Frontiers of Education for All: A Close-Up of Schools in the Periphery, H. Dean Nielsen *Strategies *Improving School-Community Relations in the Periphery, James H. Williams *School-Language Policy Decisions for Nondominant Language Groups, Zeynep F. Beykont *School Curriculum in the Periphery: The Case of South India, Prema Clarke *Teachers Working in the Periphery: Addressing Persistent Policy Issues, Maria Teresa Tatto *School and Classroom Organization in the Periphery: The Assets of Multigrade Teaching, Dunham Rowley, Jr. and H. Dean Nielsen *Managing Change *Management Initiatives for Reaching the Periphery, William K. Cummings *Reaching the Periphery: Toward a Community-Oriented Education, H. Dean Nielsen and Zeynep Beykont *Index

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