ABSTRACT
This chapter describes one successful Culture II in inner-city California, and quote some of its students' reflections more than a decade later on its long-term impact on their subsequent lives. It provides to existing quantitative documentation and professional analyses some new qualitative evidence of 'Fostering a Community of Learners' (FCL) long-term impact on its students, even though each student experienced the program for only one year. In contemporary discussions of formal education, culture has come to have two meanings, referring to two separate settings where children's growth is 'tended' in particular directions. 'FCL' was developed as a middle-school science and literacy program during the early 1990s by psychologists Ann Brown and Joseph Campione. It existed in an inner-city public school in Oakland, California for several years until Brown's death, and became one of the most visible school reform programs in the US.
