The full-service community school movement: lessons from the James Adams Community School

✍ Scribed by Jeanita W. Richardson

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 198
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In the wake of stringent public school accountability standards, educators are forced to address persistent “achievement gaps” in new ways. Concomitantly, there is growing acknowledgement that factors external to schools critically influence academic success.  Full-service community schools attempt to narrow “gaps” by convening comprehensive networks, yet, this contemporary movement also reminds us, “there is nothing new under the sun”. This book contributes to the educational and socio-historical lexicon through an examination of a segregated school exemplifying contemporary “best practices” instructive on multiple levels to schools in the twenty-first century.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Tables and Figures......Page 9
Introduction......Page 10
1 Full-Service Community Schools: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future......Page 20
2 The Efficacy of a Community Approach......Page 46
3 Pursuing Excellence in a Segregated System: Coatesville, a Town of Paradoxes......Page 74
4 The Cornerstones: The Blurred Personal and Professional Lives of T. J. and Anita Anderson......Page 96
5 James Adams Community School: Manifesting the Vision......Page 120
6 In Their Own Words: Reflections from Alumni and Faculty......Page 148
7 Looking Backward to Plan Ahead: Lessons for the Community and Full-Service School Movement......Page 170
D......Page 196
M......Page 197
Z......Page 198