Improving Results for Children and Families:
Linking Collaborative Services with School Reform Efforts

Edited by Margaret C. Wang and William Lowe Boyd

Published by: Information Age Publishing, Inc.
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Description: According to the preface written by Dr. Wang and Dr. Boyd, the book is based on papers presented at a conference that "explored expert, practitioner, and community-based knowledge and perceptions about the factors facilitating or inhibiting successful multilevel partnerships to improve education and other important results for children and families by connecting collaborative services with education reform efforts."

The conference had a number of goals, including:

  • learning how sites around the country are improving academic achievement by integrating school improvement efforts with community services reform;
  • examining how education and other human service policy is enabling and/or hindering these efforts; and
  • providing an opportunity for selected experts on collaborative services and school reform—as well as state and local agency personnel, school and community-based staff, and parents and family advocates—to reconceptualize the challenge of for ming school-community partnerships that result in improved academic success for all students.

The chapters included in this volume are organized and presented in three sections dealing with: emerging models of school-community connections, the impact and effects of the models in practice, and state and federal policies affecting school-community partnerships.

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