Coordination Among Schools, Families, and Communities

Download or read book Coordination Among Schools, Families, and Communities written by James G. Cibulka and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1996-04-19 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving the connection among schools, families, and communities has emerged as a recent focus of the education reform movement posing many challenges for educators, social service professionals, community activists, and parents. This book provides information on the diverse goals of the coordinated services movement and the problems of reconciling competing goals within the movement. The political environment surrounding coordinated services reforms is discussed, including efforts to scale-back the scope of "the welfare state." Different models of coordination are presented, such as Kentucky's Family Resource Centers, the Nation of Tomorrow project in Chicago, a community-school coalition in Philadelphia, community youth organizations, and programs for the homeless as well as organizational and management issues surrounding coordination drawn from programs throughout the United States and Canada.