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Diverse Partnerships for Student Success offers strategies to help educational leaders create and sustain successful partnerships in socio-economic diverse societies. The chapters present information on how to identify relevant demographic trends and create community partnerships to address the educational, cultural, vocational, and recreational needs of students and citizens in multicultural communities. Grounded in ISLLC and NCATE standards, the book offers comprehensive, research-based information, concrete program ideas, and numerous Internet sites.

Diverse Partnerships for Student Success is based on the deep conviction that schools function best in collaboration with the larger community. It offers strategies and tolls to help educational leaders create successful partnerships in a socioeconomically and culturally diverse society and presents information on how to identify relevant demographic trends to address the educational, cultural, vocational, and recreational needs of students and citizens. Grounded in ISLLC and NCATE standards, the book offers comprehensive, research-based information; concrete program ideas; and numerous...

Issues explored include the importance of parent and community involvement, assessing school-family relations, involving hard-to-reach parents, dealing with pressure groups, and more.

Many Americans worry about what they see as a growing gulf between the American public and its public schools. Troubling trends seem to indicate a fraying relationship among families, schools, and communities. Education reform has become the topic of many conversations as well as books and articles. There is widespread agreement that schools and education curricula need to be fixed, but there is no agreement on how this can be accomplished. Educators across the nation are implementing ideas and strategies that are making a difference in children's lives and in the health and well being of our...