To learn at high levels, students need supports that schools alone cannot provide. Educators increasingly recognize that schools must form links with community partners to enhance student learning opportunities, but how can this be done effectively? This issue of VUE looks at the latest thinking about community partnerships, with compelling examples of how partners can enhance learning opportunities for young people.
Recent Publications
This study, a collaboration of the Annenberg Institute and the Rhode Island Children's Crusade, looks at community attitudes about high school graduation requirements as part of Providence's high school redesign initiative. The report describes the views of community members, elicited in focus groups and interviews. The results of the study helped inform the planning for proposed new graduation requirements for the city's schools, which are now under consideration by the school board.
This paper offers a descriptive analysis of the education work of eight highly developed community organizing groups, and develops and articulates a dynamic, mixed method research design to specify the relationships that link organizing efforts to changes in schooling outcomes.
Education leaders have increasingly recognized that students must leave high school ready for college and career. But in the past, once students have left high school, little feedback has been available on how they did in college: how do we know when they are college ready? In this AISR publication, New York City Department of Education researchers describe a data collaboration with the City University of New York aimed at identifying the student characteristics and trajectories...
AISR had a unique opportunity to observe, facilitate, and document the early stages of a comprehensive and successful districtwide reform effort in Knoxville, Tennessee, through AISR's Central Office Review for Results and Equity, or CORRE in 2008, and then follow up four years later. The Central Office Review for Results and Equity...