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By: Patricia N. Chrosniak
In: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World
Edited by: Karen Christensen & David Levinson
Subject:Community Psychology, Sociology of Communities
Keywords:charter schools; children; common school movement; families and schools; magnet schools; public schools; schools

The term school has traditionally been used to designate a place of instruction for children and youth from the ages of five through adolescence. The nature of instruction in schools has evolved from one-to-one tutelage around the hearth to classroom teaching ...

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  Chrosniak, P. (2003). Schools. In K. Christensen, & D. Levinson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of community: From the village to the virtual world (Vol. 1, pp. 1203-1208). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n427
  
  Chrosniak, Patricia N. "Schools." In Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, edited by Christensen, Karen, and David Levinson, 1203-8. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n427.
  
  Chrosniak, P. 2003. Schools. In: Karen Christensen and David Levinson Editors, 2003. Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 1203-1208 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n427> [Accessed 15 May 2021].
  
  Chrosniak, Patricia N. "Schools." Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Edited by Karen Christensen and David Levinson. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003, pp. 1203-8. SAGE Knowledge. 15 May 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n427.
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