Description: Introduction William J. Kritek, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Section I: Models of Coordination: Implications from Field Research 1: The Kentucky Family Resource Centers: The Challenges of Remaking Family-School Interactions Claire Smrekar, Vanderbilt University 2: Visible Differences and Unseen Commonalities: Viewing Students as the Connections Between School and Communities H. Dickson Corbett, Bruce WIlson, and Jaci Webb, Research for Better Schools 3: Conflict and Consensus: The Bitter and Sweet in a Community-School Coalition Paul E. Heckman, W. Reed Scull, University of Arizona; and Sharon Conley, University of California, Santa Barbara 4: The Best of Both Worlds: Connecting Schools and Community Youth Organizations for All-Day, All-Year Learning Shirley Brice Heath and Milbrey W. McLaughlin, Stanford University 5: Educating Homeless Children: One Experiment in Collaboration Rebecca L. Newman and Lynn G. Beck, University of California, Los Angeles Section II: Organizational and Management Issues Surrounding Coordination 6: Structure and Strategies: Toward an Understanding of Alternative Models for Coordinated Children's Services Robert L. Crowson, Vanderbilt University and William Lowe Boyd, Pennsylvania State University 7: The Principal and Community-School Connections in Chicago's Radical Reform Mark A. Smylie, Robert L. Crowson, Vanderbilt University, Victoria Chou and Rebekah A. Levin, University of Illinois at Chicago 8: Schools as Intergovernmental Partners: Administrator Perceptions of Expanded Programming for Children Carolyn Herrington, Florida State University 9: Institutional Effects of Strategic Efforts at Community Enrichment Hanne B. Mawhinney, University of Ottawa 10: School-Business-University Collaboratives: The Economics of Organizational Choice Patrick F. Galvin, University of Utah 11: Reforming American Educational Policy for the Twenty-first Century Deborah A. Verstegen, University of Virginia Section III: Evaluation and Critiques of Coordination as a Reform 12: We're Not Housed in an Institution, We're Housed in the Community: Possibilities and Consequences of Neighborhood-based Interagency Collaboration Colleen A. Capper, University of Wisconsin-Madison 13: Schools and Community Connections: Applying a Sociological Framework Gail Chase Furman, Washington State University and Carol Merz, University of Puget Sound 14: Connecting Schools and Communities Through Interagency Collaboration For School-Linked Services Debra Shaver, Shari Golan, and Mary Wagner, SRI International 15: Beyond Consensus: Mapping Divergent Views of Systems and Power in Collaboratives Maureen W. McClure, Bruce A. Jones, and Eugenie Potter, University of Pittsburgh Conclusion: Toward an Interpretation of School, Family, and Community Connections: Policy Challenges James G. Cibulka, University of Wisconsin-Madison About the Editors and Authors Index

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