School-community connections : exploring issues for research and practice

1. Introduction: The Need for New Strategies(Leo C. Rigsby) Part One: The Policy Debate 2. Collaboration to Improve Education and Children's Services: Politics and Policymaking(Michael W. Kirst, Carolyn Kelly) 3. Commentary: Renewing Familcratic Commitments(Edmund W. Gordon) 4. Commentary: Local Parnerships as the Source of Innovative Policy(Wayne H. Holtzman) Part Two: Key Organizational Issues 5. Obstacles to Success in Educational Collaboration(Barbara Gray) 6. A Communication Perspective on Interorganizational Cooperation and Inner-City Education(Eric M. Eisenberg) 7. Integration of Services for Children: A Political Economy of Institutions Perspective(Robert L. Crowson, William L. Boyd) 8. Commentary: The Case for Assessing Intermediate Outcomes(Michael K. Grady) 9. Commentary: On Building Trusting and Mutually Beneficial Partnerships(Carol B. Truesdell) Part Three: The Social Context 10. The Macroecology of Educational Outcomes(David W. Bartelt) 11. Ecological Embeddedness of Educational Processes and Outcomes(William L. Yancy, Salvatore J. Saporito) 12. The Complex World of an Embedded Institution: Schools and Their Consituent Publics(Alan Peshkin) 13. Commentary: Breaking the Cycle of Causation(Sam F. Redding) 14. Commentary: Collaboration and Family Empowerment as Strategies to Achieve Comprehensive Services(Don Davies) Part Four: Lessons from Existing Programs 15. The Effectiveness of Collaborative School-Linked Service(Margaret C. Wang, Geneva D. Haertel, Herbert J. Walberg) 16. The School of the Future: Implementation Issues in a School/Community Connection(Harriet H. Arvey, Alfredo Tijerina) 17. Slipping Through the Cracks: The Education of Homeless Children(Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Maria Grace Yon, Iris Carlton-LaNey) 18. An Evaluation of Family Suppport and Integrated Services in Six Elementary Schools(Lawrence J. Dolan) 19. Commentary: Lessons Learned About Integrating Services(Andrea Zetlin).