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Engaging Civic and Community Partners
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- Organized Communities, Stronger Schools
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> Executive Summary [PDF: 2 pages]
> Download Report [PDF: 41 pages ]
> More information
A preview of findings from a six-year study of the impact of community organizing on school improvement in seven urban communities.
The study finds that effective community organizing- contributes to an improved learning environment and improved educational outcomes for students
- strengthens school-community relations, parent engagement, and a sense of community and trust in schools
- stimulates important changes in policy, practices, and resource distribution that expand equity and capacity at the system level, especially in historically underserved communities
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- contributes to an improved learning environment and improved educational outcomes for students
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- The Annenberg Challenge: Lessons and Reflections on Public School Reform
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> Report summary, table of contents, press release.
> Download Report [PDF: 61 pages, 4 MB]
The Annenberg Foundation and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform commissioned "Lessons and Reflections" not to memorialize further a landmark philanthropic gesture but to impart what we learned from successes and failures. We wrote this report with the public, not professional educators, in mind and sought to tell our story without the jargon that makes so many education reports (and conversations) impenetrable.
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- Building Public Engagement
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This video presents efforts in three local settings to involve the public in educational improvement and is helpful to anyone interested in understanding the dynamics of public engagement and the positive benefits that can result for school improvement and student achievement. The video is a collaboration between the Annenberg Institute and the Annenberg/CPB Channel. The video package includes a videotape containing 3 half-hour programs, a facilitator's guide for each program, and two publications: Reasons for Hope, Voices for Change: A Report of the Annenberg Institute, and Local Conversations on Education in Your Community, a guide to organizing and leading community discussions. (1999)
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- Collective Bargaining in Public Education: A New Dialogue
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> Web site
This Web site grew out of the conference Collective Bargaining in Public Education: A New Dialogue, which offered a first step toward examining the role of state policy-makers, teacher unions, and local school districts in creating the conditions and supports essential to improved outcomes for all students, especially in large urban districts. The Web site features summaries of the issues discussed, along with video and audio clips of participants; information about the conference; and other resources.
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- Constituents of Change: Community Organizations and Public Education Reform
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> Download Report
[PDF: 76 pages, 524 KB]
This paper offers a descriptive analysis of the education work of eight highly developed community organizing groups, and develops and articulates a dynamic, mixed method research design to specify the relationships that link organizing efforts to changes in schooling outcomes. (2004)
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- Engaging Cities: HOW MUNICIPAL LEADERS CAN MOBILIZE COMMUNITIES TO IMPROVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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Download Sections:
> Introduction [PDF: 11 pages, 2.27 MB]
> Denver
> Akron
> Long Beach
> Nashville
> Bronx
> Conclusion
> Resources
> More information
> National League of Cities partnership
This report looks at five cities where mayors have engaged the public and built civic capacity around education reform, using the leverage of their office in strategic ways. The stories of Denver, Akron, Long Beach, Nashville, and New York identify and describe practical, high-yield strategies and solutions mayors are using and resources they have found or created. The report also includes an annotated list of resources for municipal leaders on public engagement in support of schools. (2006)
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- Engaging Communities: Voices in Urban Education 13
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> Order Print Copy [44 pages; $10]
> VUE 13 web archive
[Includes articles, audio interviews, resources, author bios]
Educators increasingly recognize that community engagement is an essential component of education reform. Community engagement builds support for public schools, and engaged communities create pressure for improvement. What does authentic community engagement look like, and how can it serve the goal of educational improvement? This issue of Voices in Urban Education provides five perspectives on ways the whole community can engage in education and create demand and support for changes that will benefit all young people. Articles by Norm Fruchter and Richard Gray, Donald McAdams, Bill Purcell, Pedro Noguera and Jeremiah Newell. (Fall 2006)
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- Public Engagement Watch
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This monthly newsletter is a joint publication of the Institute for Youth, Education, and Families of the National League of Cities and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. It provides local elected officials with summaries of and links to recent news articles and academic research reports; a monthly tool to promote public engagement; and a list of current funding opportunities of potential interest to local leaders
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- Reasons for Hope, Voices for Change: A Report of the Annenberg Institute on Public Engagement for Public Education
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> Download Part 1
[PDF: 46 pages, 649 KB]
> Download Part 2 [PDF: 44 pages, 563 KB]
Note: This publication is no longer in print, except as part of the video package Building Public Engagement.
This first-of-its-kind report offers a comprehensive look at the kinds of public-engagement initiatives that have begun springing up around the country and at what they are doing to build citizen involvement and support for school change. (1998)
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- Urban Schools, Public Will
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[192 pages, $21.95]
Urban Schools, Public Will by the Annenberg Institute's Norm Fruchter draws on a rich array of research and personal experience to examine why, fifty years beyond Brown v. Board, urban districts have failed poor students of color and what must be done to transform our city schools.
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