ABSTRACT
The Community Learning Centers (CLC) program describes a comprehensive, top-to-bottom school design to dramatically increase the school achievement of all students. As such, the design is complex and exacting to implement in its entirety given long-standing school traditions, beliefs and policies. However, it is our conviction that only a systemic model for school change will raise American education to the level required for a sophisticated democratic society and the competitive world of the 21st century.
