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AUSTIN INTERFAITH: BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS TO REINVENT SCHOOL CULTURE
Through the Alliance Schools network, the group created new parent and school leadership, brought new resources to the district, and improved student performance.
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These research-based reports and case studies aim to help community stakeholders deepen their understanding of education issues and become effective advocates and partners in improving their local schools. The ultimate goal is to share knowledge that will help communities mobilize their assets to build smart education systems, which ensure an equitable and excellent education for all students. AUSTIN INTERFAITH: BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS TO REINVENT SCHOOL CULTURE
Through the Alliance Schools network, the group created new parent and school leadership, brought new resources to the district, and improved student performance.> Summary, full report,
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Building Smart Education Systems
Voices in Urban Education 26
Highlights from the first twent-five issues of VUE illustrate different components of a smart education system from a variety of perspectives. The disparate voices brought together by VUE have not always agreed, but out of their dialogue, common ground and a vision for smart education systems have emerged. (Winter 2010)
Voices in Urban Education 26
Highlights from the first twent-five issues of VUE illustrate different components of a smart education system from a variety of perspectives. The disparate voices brought together by VUE have not always agreed, but out of their dialogue, common ground and a vision for smart education systems have emerged. (Winter 2010)
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The College Pathways Tool Series
These tools include rubrics, surveys, focus group protocols, and examples of best practices to help high schools and their partners examine how well they are preparing students, especially low-income students, for graduation and college. (Fall 2009)
These tools include rubrics, surveys, focus group protocols, and examples of best practices to help high schools and their partners examine how well they are preparing students, especially low-income students, for graduation and college. (Fall 2009)
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Organized Communities, Stronger Schools: Case Study Series
A six-year study documents the positive impact of local community organizing on school capacity and student learning in seven urban communities. (October 2009)
A six-year study documents the positive impact of local community organizing on school capacity and student learning in seven urban communities. (October 2009)
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Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition & Sistas and Brothas United
New school facilities and repairs relieved overcrowding and youth leaders collaborated with educators to open a new small high school with a youth leadership and community action model. (October 2009)
New school facilities and repairs relieved overcrowding and youth leaders collaborated with educators to open a new small high school with a youth leadership and community action model. (October 2009)
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Eastern Pennsylvania Organizing Project and Youth United for Change (Philadelphia)
Organizing won greater parental access to school information, and new small high schools showed gains in attendance and student college-going plans. (October 2009)
Organizing won greater parental access to school information, and new small high schools showed gains in attendance and student college-going plans. (October 2009)
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People Acting for Community Together (Miami)
A new literacy program and extensive community engagement improved community-school relationships and helped to raise low reading achievement in twenty-seven elementary schools. (September 2009)
A new literacy program and extensive community engagement improved community-school relationships and helped to raise low reading achievement in twenty-seven elementary schools. (September 2009)
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Oakland Community Organizations: Building a Districtwide Small Schools Movement
A six-year study documents the success of OCO in building a districtwide movement that ultimately created 48 new small schools that are raising student achievement. (Summer 2009)
A six-year study documents the success of OCO in building a districtwide movement that ultimately created 48 new small schools that are raising student achievement. (Summer 2009)
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Chicago ACORN (work currently led by Action Now)
Organizing led to a new statewide, cross-sector program to train community residents as teachers for hard-to-staff schools. (August 2009)
Organizing led to a new statewide, cross-sector program to train community residents as teachers for hard-to-staff schools. (August 2009)
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Community Coalition,
Los Angeles: Securing a College Prep Curriculum for All Students
Youth-led organizing and a citywide coalition resulted in a new district resolution mandating a college preparatory curriculum for all high schools. (July 2009)
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Youth-led organizing and a citywide coalition resulted in a new district resolution mandating a college preparatory curriculum for all high schools. (July 2009)
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Austin Interfaith: Building Partnerships to Reinvent School Culture
Through the Alliance Schools network, the group created new parent and school leadership, brought new resources to the district, and improved student performance. (June 2009)
Through the Alliance Schools network, the group created new parent and school leadership, brought new resources to the district, and improved student performance. (June 2009)
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Communities and Schools: Voices in Urban Education 23
Community organizing for education reform plays an important role in building the civic capacity to create lasting and effective change that comes from a community, rather than to a community. (Spring 2009)
Community organizing for education reform plays an important role in building the civic capacity to create lasting and effective change that comes from a community, rather than to a community. (Spring 2009)
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Looming Crisis or Historic Opportunity
This report from the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice details the challenges of the new Regents diploma requirements to the city’s already low graduation rates. (2009)
This report from the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice details the challenges of the new Regents diploma requirements to the city’s already low graduation rates. (2009)
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Building College Pathways Takes A Village: Findings from the North Philadelphia College Ambassadors Project
This report follows an action research project designed to complement the award-winning documentary First Person, which follows six Philadelphia high school students as they try to make it to college. (2008)
This report follows an action research project designed to complement the award-winning documentary First Person, which follows six Philadelphia high school students as they try to make it to college. (2008)
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Organized Communities, Stronger Schools
A preview of findings from a six-year study of the impact of community organizing on school improvement in seven urban communities. (2008)
A preview of findings from a six-year study of the impact of community organizing on school improvement in seven urban communities. (2008)
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Our Children Can't Wait: A Proposal to Close the Middle-Grades Achievement Gap
This report was written for the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice (CEJ) and calls on Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein to take bold action by implementing recommendations of the New York City Council Middle School Task Force. (2008)
This report was written for the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice (CEJ) and calls on Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein to take bold action by implementing recommendations of the New York City Council Middle School Task Force. (2008)
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Using Data for Decisions: Voices in Urban Education 18
This issue of Voices in Urban Education looks at districts and communities that have shown success in using data effectively. (2008)
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This issue of Voices in Urban Education looks at districts and communities that have shown success in using data effectively. (2008)
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City Schools: How Districts and Communities Can Create Smart Education Systems
This book describes ways that urban districts around the country are becoming “smarter” and outlines the Annenberg Institute’s vision of a “smart education system,” linking a highly functioning school district with a broad and accessible web of supports for students and families. (2007)
This book describes ways that urban districts around the country are becoming “smarter” and outlines the Annenberg Institute’s vision of a “smart education system,” linking a highly functioning school district with a broad and accessible web of supports for students and families. (2007)
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Middle-Grades Report: Platforms for Success or Pathways to Failure?
A report highlighting inequities in curriculum offerings and teacher quality between high- and low-performing middle-grade schools in NYC. (2007)
A report highlighting inequities in curriculum offerings and teacher quality between high- and low-performing middle-grade schools in NYC. (2007)
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School-Police Partnership Effectiveness in Urban Schools: An Analysis of New York City’s Impact Schools Initiative
This article examines the initial effect of New York City’s Impact Schools Initiative, a punitive-based school-police program aimed at increaseing police presence at some of the city’s most dangerous public schools. (2007)
This article examines the initial effect of New York City’s Impact Schools Initiative, a punitive-based school-police program aimed at increaseing police presence at some of the city’s most dangerous public schools. (2007)
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Skills for Smart Systems: Voices in Urban Education 17
Schools and school systems, community organizations, and other agencies need to have the ability to function effectively to ensure that all students learn at high levels. How have effective partnerships developed such abilities? (2007)
Schools and school systems, community organizations, and other agencies need to have the ability to function effectively to ensure that all students learn at high levels. How have effective partnerships developed such abilities? (2007)
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Urban Schools, Public Will
This book 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. (2007)
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This book 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. (2007)
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Community Involvement Program
These articles and reports from the Community Invovlement Program, published from 1996 to 2006, address a range of topics such as charter schools, community, parent, and youth engagement in education reform, and accountability. (1996-2006)
These articles and reports from the Community Invovlement Program, published from 1996 to 2006, address a range of topics such as charter schools, community, parent, and youth engagement in education reform, and accountability. (1996-2006)
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Engaging Cities:
How Municipal Leaders can Mobilize Communities to Improve Public Schools
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. (2006)
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. (2006)
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Engaging Communities: Voices in Urban Education 13
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. (2006)
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. (2006)
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Student Engagement: Tools in Practice
These Web pages offer practical tools and frameworks to increase student collaboration, participation, and empowerment in school improvement. (2006)
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These Web pages offer practical tools and frameworks to increase student collaboration, participation, and empowerment in school improvement. (2006)
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2005
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Community Partners: Voices in Urban Education 7
This issue of VUE looks at the latest thinking about community partnerships, with compelling examples of how partners can enhance learning opportunities for young people. (2005)
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This issue of VUE looks at the latest thinking about community partnerships, with compelling examples of how partners can enhance learning opportunities for young people. (2005)
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Constituents of Change: Community Organizations and Public Education Reform
This report is an 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)
This report is an 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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Community Perspectives on High School Graduation Requirements
This study looks at community attitudes about high school graduation requirements as part of Providence’s high school redesign initiative. The report describes the views of community members, elicited in focus groups and interviews. (2004)
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This study looks at community attitudes about high school graduation requirements as part of Providence’s high school redesign initiative. The report describes the views of community members, elicited in focus groups and interviews. (2004)
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The Annenberg Challenge: Lessons and Reflections on Public School Reform
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. (2003)
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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. (2003)
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Developing Effective Partnerships to Support Local Education
This paper lays out some fundamental ways communities and school districts can work better together to support and sustain the healthy development of children and youth. (2002)
This paper lays out some fundamental ways communities and school districts can work better together to support and sustain the healthy development of children and youth. (2002)
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Building Public Engagement
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. (1998)
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. (1998)
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Reasons for Hope, Voices for Change
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)
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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