Three years ago, the "Council of the Great City Schools" embarked on a multi-year initiative to help its member school districts implement the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Part of this initiative involves annual surveys of progress urban public school districts were making in implementing the CCSS. With the support of the Bill…

The expansion of Pre-K in early childhood programs, both in the community and in schools, has the potential to build significant new alignment between the traditional K-12 education system and the preschool year. Most communities, however, have only scratched the surface of collaboration between public schools and community programs as…

Houston Real Men Read is chaired by Texas Senator Rodney Ellis and spearheaded by the Houston Independent School District (HISD) Board Trustee Paula M. Harris. Houston Real Men Read is a mentoring program in which men from the Houston community committed one hour, once a month, to read to second, fifth, and seventh-grade students. The program…

This case study describes tensions that became apparent between community members and school administrators after a proposal to close a historically African American public high school in a large urban Southwestern city. When members of the city's longstanding African American community responded with outrage, the school district's senior…

Community schools are organized around two common goals: helping students learn and succeed and strengthening families and communities. Full-service community schools extend these guiding principles. They are centers of their communities, providing high-quality after-school opportunities, comprehensive early childhood education, real-world…

Between the summer of 1968 and May 1969, 30 community controlled school projects were studied. Observations of community school curricula, community involvement and integration, and the like are summarized. Strategies for control are grouped under the same three structures utilized in the three chapters of project profiles: public school…

In this series of eight articles, the authors address several different ways of developing community-based programs in various educational settings. (LRA)

This report, prepared by students of the College of Education at Cleveland State University, evaluates the Cleveland Urban Learning Community (CULC), a secondary school dedicated to building a sense of community by matching student interest with student learning, and encouraging tolerance for cultural diversity. The evaluation sought to measure…

PRESENTED IS A DETAILED REPORT ON PLANS FOR AN EDUCATIONAL PARK IN THE BRONX IN NEW YORK CITY. THE SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE PARK ARE BASED ON THE MAJOR CRITERIA OF (1) PROVISION FOR SCHOOL INTEGRATION, (2) DEVELOPMENT OF A SOUND COMMUNITY-SCHOOL RELATIONSHIP, (3) IMPLEMENTATION OF GRADE LEVEL REORGANIZATION AS SET FORTH BY BOARD OF EDUCATION…

This booklet is the sixth in a series that examines community school centers. This compendium of resources for planning community school centers contains information on published materials, organizations and associations, and a geographical listing of community school centers. The materials include recent literature on community school centers and…

This report examines the Ford Foundation's efforts in developing and implementing alternative schools to the public schools or in providing seed money to new alternatives designed for public support. The publication begins with a look at the origin of the alternative school movement and then describes several kinds of school alternatives assisted…

The Bodh approach to primary education in India focuses on community and parental involvement, including home visits by teachers, training of community women to be para-teachers for preschools, and parent-teacher meetings. The curriculum is activity-oriented, incorporates a flexible age/grade matrix, and includes culturally relevant experiences.…

Thrasher School is a K-12 unit school in Prentiss County, Mississippi, that has survived and flourished in an economically disadvantaged area because of its close community connections. The K-12 school enrolls 482 students, of which 144 attend grades 9-12. The community has vigorously resisted high school consolidation, financing reconstruction of…

A group of 20 British-born Chinese children aged 12 to 14 were examined in terms of ability to use their mother tongue and of social network structures. One finding is that, to make community language education more effective, parents and children should be brought closer together socially. (Contains 46 references.) (Author/LB)

Guidelines for building collaboration between education and social services are based on an Arizona superintendent's experiences in the establishment on school district grounds of a family assistance center staffed with 20 workers. (MLF)