Schools
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Fall 1999, v15-4




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School & Community Collaborations

The relationship between schools and communities poses one of the greatest challenges to the full and healthy development of young people. To underscore the importance of this theme, this quarter's Focus section draws from articles in the current issue that explore school and community connections.

Supporting Students' Schooling Through Community Connections
-Mary Jane Harkins, Ph.D.

As educators debate complex issues such as the purposes of schooling and what constitutes curriculum content, school and community initiatives in a rural Canadian school district demonstrate an integrated approach to authentic learning, in a democratic environment.

 
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Articles  
Educating for the Seventh Generation
-John P. Terry, Ph.D.

Making an ImPACT: The Power of Community-Based Service Learning
-Curtis Ogden

Project Learn:
Making the After-School Hours Work for Boys & Girls Club Members

-Carter Savage, Ed.D.

Full Service Community Schools
-Joy G. Dryfoos

Education for Engagement in Venezuela:
How the REDES Program Builds Youth Participation

-Arelys Moreno de Yánez, J. Leonardo Yánez
 
Columns  
Spotlight on Youth
Moving Beyond Violence

-Jason Crowe

Research and Practice
School-Community Collaboration for Learning and Teaching:
Findings From Research and Practice

-Meredith Honig, Joseph Kahne, Milbrey W. McLaughlin

Children's Express
Building a School in the Enemy's Face

-Danielle Friedman, John Trippi

International Insights
Education for Citizenship

-Merita Irby

Bookshelf
Service Learning for Youth Empowerment and Social Change

Edited by Jeff Claus and Curtis Ogden
-John Terry


View from the Hill
Federal Youth Policies on Schools and Communities:
Promoting Partnership, Sustaining Separation, or Creating Conflict?

-Miriam Rollin

Opinion
Into the Lion's Den: Values Study at Brown University

-Nancy L. Rosenblum, Ph.D.
 

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