Strengthening Families, Communities, and Schools to Support Children's Development: Neighborhoods of Promise

ISBN-13: 9780367889395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 194 str.

Edmund W. Gordon; Betina Jean-Louis; Nkechi Obiora

Opis

Drawing on a range of contexts influenced by the Promise Neighborhoods Program—a federal place-based initiative to improve educational outcomes for students in distressed urban and rural neighborhoods—this book outlines effective characteristics and elements for implementing supplementary education.

Spis treści

PART ONE

Foreword


Geoffrey Canada

Chapter 1
Comprehensive Education and Family Resource Centers for the 21st Century

Edmund W. Gordon, Paola C. Heincke, & Andrew C. Shurtleff

Chapter 2
Building Communities of Opportunity: Equity, Education and
the Agenda for Change


Angela Glover Blackwell

Chapter 3
The Role of Family and Home in Children’s Intellectual Development


E.B. Campbell and Edmund W. Gordon

Chapter 4
Community Life and Resources as Settings for Learning


Emile Sessions and Edmund W. Gordon

Chapter 5
The Special Role of Schooling in the Development of
Academic Ability of Children and Youth


Eleanor Armour-Thomas

Chapter 6
Closing the Education Gap: The Hidden Potential of the Black Church


Carey H. Latimore

PART TWO

Chapter 7
Community Schools: A Strategy, Not a Program


Jane Quinn

Chapter 8
The Eagle Academy for Young Men:
An Exemplar of the Comprehensive Practice of Education


Carol Bonilla Bowman, Ed.D. Edmund W. Gordon, Ed.D.

Chapter 9
Creating a Village that Nurtures Children at the Harlem Children’s Zone


Betina Jean-Louis

Chapter 10
Engaging African American Youth in Social Change and Community Building through Cooperative Economic Development

Jessica Gordon Nembhard, E. Wyatt Gordon and Stephen M. Nembhard

Chapter 11
High Performance Learning Communities


Edmund W. Gordon, Andrew C. Shurtleff & Ishan E. Gordon

Afterword

Recontextualizing the achievement gap through Neighborhoods of Promise

A.J. Franklin

O autorze

Edmund W. Gordon is the Emeritus John Musser Professor of Psychology at Yale University, and Richard March Hoe Professor at Columbia University, Teachers College, USA.

Betina Jean-Louis is the Director of Research and Evaluation for the Harlem Children's Zone, USA.

Nkechi Obiora is a consultant with Farafina Shirikiano Communications, USA.