CYD: Summer 2001

COVER STORY

CBO Schools: Reinventing High School Education
Richard Murphy, Stephanie M. Smith, Jean Thomases

Recently the Center for Youth Development and Policy Research examined 11 schools operated by community-based organizations (CBOs). This article profiles two of the schools-El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice and Shalom High School-and describes how they integrate quality education, community development, and youth development.

FEATURES

Rethinking and Co-creating Schools
Peter M. Senge, Ph.D.

In this interview author, educator, and organizational learning pioneer Peter Senge speaks to CYD about recreating schooling in America, and the challenge of "balancing the pressures to improve our schools as they are while simultaneously laying the foundation for fundamental evolution."

The Neighborhood Academy:
Empowering School Communities with Facilitative Leadership
Sarah A. Miller, The Institute of Cultural Affairs

At the Institute of Cultural Affairs the term "facilitative leadership" is meant to pose a contrast with a more common term and practice-hierarchical leadership. This article demonstrates how, by training neighbors of all ages and backgrounds in facilitative leadership, a community can be transformed.

Safe Schools and Successful Leaning: There IS an Answer [References]
Bonnie Benard, M.S.W.

Caring relationships, high expectations, and opportunities for participation and contribution-when these three principles interact they form a human network called "community." In this article Bonnie Benard describes how to apply these principles in educational settings.

Posse: Transforming Leadership Culture
Erika K. Smith

The mission of the Posse Foundation is threefold: recruiting student leaders who may have been overlooked by the university recruitment process, empowering students to effect positive change in their communities, and modeling diversity. Written by a Posse alumni, this article describes this dynamic program.

Building Hope Through Thoughtful Action:
Higher Education in Service to Communities
Irene Fisher

Service learning, when it focuses on community partnerships, participatory education, and confronting social injustice, is a powerful CYD strategy-and one that is elegantly applied in the Service-Learning ScholarÌs Program at the University of UtahÌs Bennion Center.

School Vouchers: Necessary Public Choice or Downfall of Public Education Ideals?
Jennifer Lutzy

Do school vouchers work? In this article two Board of Education presidents-James Peyser from Boston and William Thompson from New York City-debate the pros and cons and author Jennifer Lutzy frames the discussion through a CYD lens.

DEPARTMENTS

Notes from the Editor
Actualizing Education Reform
John P. Terry, Ph.D.

Advancing Social Justice
Teacher Education Must Include Homosexuality
Arthur Lipkin, Ed.D.

Policy
Welfare Reform and Access to Education
Erica Kates

International Insights on Youth and Communities
Building Nations, Changing Nations:
Youth Action Beyond Communities
The Forum for Youth Investment

Bookshelf

Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education
Peter Senge, Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Timothy Lucas, Brian Smith, Jannis Dutton, Art Kleiner