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Title Community schools in action : lessons from a decade of practice / edited by Joy G. Dryfoos, Jane Quinn, Carol Barkin
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 280 pages) : illustrations
Series OUP E-Books
Contents Contributors; Children's Aid Society Community Schools in New York City as of the 2002-2003 School Year; Timeline of the Children's Aid Society Community Schools Initiative; I. Overview: Rationale, History, and Approach; Introduction; 1. Why The Children's Aid Society Is Involved in This Work; 2. History of the Children's Aid Society Model; 3. Community Schools from a Lead Agency Administrator's Perspective; II. Core Program Components; Introduction; 4. Parent Involvement and Leadership in Action; 5. After-School and Summer Enrichment Programs; 6. Early Childhood Programs
7. School-Based Health Services8. Mental Health Services; 9. Promoting Community and Economic Development; III. Leadership, Management, and Governance Issues; Introduction; 10. The Power of Two or More: Partnership from a School Administrator's Perspective; 11. Managing the Growth of Community Schools; 12. Sustaining Community Schools: Learning from Children's Aid Society's Experience; 13. Evaluation of Children's Aid Society Community Schools; IV. National Implications; Introduction; 14. National and International Adaptations of the Children's Aid Society Model
15. Extended-Service Schools as a District-Wide Strategy16. Schools as Centers of Community: Planning and Design; 17. Reaching Out to Create a Movement; Looking to the Future; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary A community school differs from other public schools in important ways: it is generally open most of the time, governed by a partnership between the school system and a community agency, and offers a broad array of health and social services. It often has an extended day before and after school, features parent involvement programs, and works for community enrichment. How should such a school be structured? How can its success be measured? "Community Schools in Action: Lessons from a Decade of Practice" presents the Children's Aid Society's (CAS) approach to creating community schools for the 21st century. CAS began this work more than a decade ago and today operates thirteen such schools in three low-income areas of New York City. Through a technical assistance center operated by CAS, hundreds of other schools across the country and the world are adapting this model. Based on their own experiences working with community schools, the contributors to the volume supply invaluable information about the selected program components.; They describe how and why CAS started its community school initiative and explain how CAS community schools are organized, integrated with the school system, sustained, and evaluated. The book also includes several contributions from experts outside of CAS: a city superintendent, an architect, and the director of the Coalition for Community Schools. Co-editors Joy Dryfoos, an authority on community schools, and Jane Quinn, CAS's Assistant Executive Director of Community Schools, have teamed up with freelance writer Carol Barkin to provide commentary linking the various components together. For those interested in transforming their schools into effective child and family-centered institutions, this book provides a detailed road map. For those concerned with educational and social policy, the book offers a unique example of research-based action that has significant implications for our society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.)
SUBJECT Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.) fast
Subject Community schools -- New York (State) -- New York
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
Community schools
New York (State) -- New York
Form Electronic book
Author Dryfoos, Joy G., editor.
Quinn, Jane, 1944- editor.
Barkin, Carol, editor.
LC no. 2004012389
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