A Review of the Research Literature on Scaling Up in Education
Though our public schools are the sites of continual innovation and promise, good ideas rarely diffuse widely through the system. But the difficulties of scaling up appear particularly severe within public education.
Constructing School Partnerships with Families and Community Groups
Educators sometimes are content to let parents and families take the initiative in becoming involved in their children's education. But for a real partnership to occur, educators must look at ways in which the school can initiate this involvement.
Cooperative Learning Response to Diversity
Dedicated teachers are always looking for better ideas for meeting the many challenges they face in school, especially as diversity increases in the student population. Cooperative learning methods provide teachers with effective ways to respond to diverse students by promoting academic achievement and cross-cultural understanding.
Family-School-Community Parnerships
Harvard Family Research Project's focus on family-school-community partnerships is based on the premise that family involvement is critical to children's academic achievement and social development. Our goal is to support the development of this field, consisting of the programs, organizations, institutions, and people dedicated to engaging families, schools, and communities to work in partnership for positive student outcomes.
Profiles of Selected School-Community Partnerships
This page is the index page from which you may link to profiles of selected school-community partnerships in California. In each description, the site provides you with background on how the program got started, its goals and activities, management structure, coordination with schools, staffing information, number of schoolsites and students served, funding, and program evaluation findings.
Program for Refining Educational Partnerships
During the 1996-2000 Regional Educational Laboratory contract, SEDL's work in this area featured the development and refinement of a collaborative process for building school-home-community partnerships. Together, school, home, community, and student representatives share responsibility for identifying pressing educational issues and implementing action plans to address them.
Rural School Organizations
Information and links to such organizations as the Rural School and Community Trust and the National Rural Education Association.
School, Family, Community Partnerships
This Knowledge Loom spotlight presents research-based principles for effective practices that can be used in schools and districts to develop School/Family/Community Partnerships that support improved student achievement. The content has been prepared by RMC Research Corporation , a leader in educational research and services.
Building Relationships for Student Success: School-Family-Community Partnerships and Student Achievement in the Northwest
Partnerships by Design: Cultivating Effective and Meaningful School-Family-Community Partnerships
Planning for Youth Success
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School/Community Partnerships: Selected Resources
Source:National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, November 2003. For additional resource lists on these and other service‑learning topics visit the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse Website at http://www.servicelearning.org.
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