Improving Results for Children and Families

Margaret C. Wang|William Lowe Boyd

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05 September 2000

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Contents

Comprises three sections: emerging models for connecting community services reform; the impact of school- and community-based interventions and children's learning and development; and state and federal policies for building partnerships to improve outcomes for children and families.

Preface; Margaret C. Wang and William Lowe Boyd.

Section I. Emerging Models for Connecting Community Services Reform and Education Improvement Efforts.
Chapter 1. Trends and Lessons in School-Community Initiatives; Atelia I. Melaville with Martin J. Blank.
Chapter 2. Community for Learning: Connection with Community Services; JoAnn B. Manning and Lucy Rodriguez.
Section II. The Impact of School and Community-Based Interventions on Children's Learning and Development
Chapter 3. Schools Community-Based Interventions and Children's Learning and Development: What's the Connect? Katherine K. Merseth, Lisbeth B. Schorr, and Richard F. Elmore.
Chapter 4. Furthering Education: The Relationship of Schools and other Organizations; Joan Wynn, Stephen Meyer, and Katherine Richards-Schuster.
Chapter 5. Lessons from the Evaluation of New Jersey's School-based Youth Services Program; Constancia Warren and Cheri Fancsali.
Chapter 6. School and After-School Programs as Contexts for Youth Development: A Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment; Joseph Kahne, Jenny Nagaoka, Andrea Brown, James O'Brien, Therese Quinn, and Keith Thiede.
Section III. State and Federal Policies for Building Partnerships to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families.
Chapter 7. State Education Agency Support for School-Community Collaboration in the Mid-Atlantic States; Shelly Hara.
Chapter 8. Enhancing Federal Support for Connecting Educational Improvement Strategies and Collaborative Services; Meredith I. Honig and Jeanne D. Jehl.