Research Catalog

Title

School-community connections : exploring issues for research and practice / Leo C. Rigsby, Maynard C. Reynolds, and Margaret C. Wang, editors.

Publication

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

• Rigsby, Leo C.
• Reynolds, Maynard C., 1922-2012.
• Wang, Margaret C.

Description

xxx, 441 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

The Jossey-Bass education series

Uniform Title

Jossey-Bass education series.

Subjects

• Education and state > United States > Congresses
• Community and school > United States > Congresses
• Education > Social aspects > United States > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction: The Need for New Strategies / Leo C. Rigsby -- 2. Collaboration to Improve Education and Children's Services: Politics and Policy Making / Michael W. Kirst and Carolyn Kelley -- 3. Commentary: Renewing Familial and Democratic Commitments / Edmund W. Gordon -- 4. Commentary: Local Partnerships as the Source of Innovative Policy / Wayne H. Holtzman -- 5. Obstacles to Success in Educational Collaborations / Barbara Gray -- 6. A Communication Perspective on Interorganizational Cooperation and Inner-City Education / Eric M. Eisenberg -- 7. Integration of Services for Children: A Political Economy of Institutions Perspective / Robert L. Crowson and William L. Boyd -- 8. Commentary: The Case for Assessing Intermediate Outcomes / Michael K. Grady -- 9. Commentary: On Building Trusting and Mutually Beneficial Partnerships / Carol B. Truesdell -- 10. The Macroecology of Educational Outcomes / David W. Bartelt.
• 11. Ecological Embeddedness of Educational Processes and Outcomes / William L. Yancey and Salvatore J. Saporito -- 12. The Complex World of an Embedded Institution: Schools and Their Constituent Publics / Alan Peshkin -- 13. Commentary: Breaking the Cycle of Causation / Samuel F. Redding -- 14. Commentary: Collaboration and Family Empowerment as Strategies to Achieve Comprehensive Services / Don Davies -- 15. The Effectiveness of Collaborative School-Linked Services / Margaret C. Wang, Geneva D. Haertel and Herbert J. Walberg -- 16. The School of the Future: Implementation Issues in a School-Community Connection / Harriet H. Arvey and Alfredo Tijerina -- 17. Slipping Through the Cracks: The Education of Homeless Children / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Maria Grace Yon and Iris Carlton-LaNey -- 18. An Evaluation of Family Support and Integrated Services in Six Elementary Schools / Lawrence J. Dolan -- 19. Commentary: Lessons Learned About Integrating Services / Andrea Zetlin.

ISBN

0787900990 (alk. paper)

LCCN

95001303

OCLC

• 31901655
• ocm31901655

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries