Community Organizing & Engagement
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AISR provides support to urban communities in their struggles for school improvement. Through policy research, educational data analysis, training, facilitation, coordination, support for strategy development, and logistical support, we help youth, parent, and community education organizing groups develop sufficient power to improve the quality of education in low-performing school districts.
Richard Gray, Director of Community Organizing and Engagement describes three themes of this initiative.
Projects
In 2012, the Ford Foundation asked the Annenberg Institute for School Reform (AISR) at Brown University to help develop a framework for tracking the implementation of the Foundation’s More and...
Current national and local education policies often pit teachers and parents against each other, trapping them in a cycle of blame and mistrust. But in one Minneapolis community, parents and teachers...
In 1995, a small group of parents in the south Bronx discovered that only 17 percent of their elementary school children were reading at grade level. Their determined campaign to bring high-quality...
CO&E staff provide research, training, and logistical support to the Urban Youth Collaborative (UYC) in New York City. With AISR support, UYC has contributed to important successes such as the...
CO&E staff provide research, training, and logistical support to the New York City Coalition for Educational Justice (CEJ) in New York City, a citywide coalition of parent- and community-led...
The Center for Education Organizing (CEO) supports and amplifies local and national demands for educational justice in underserved communities. The CEO integrates the expertise of a university-based...
AISR supports the Nellie Mae Education Foundation’s (NMEF) to help school districts and communities in New England implement, sustain, and build demand for student-centered approaches that foster...