Strengthening families, communities, and schools to support children's development : neighborhoods of promise / edited by Edmund W. Gordon, Betina Jean-Louis, and Nkechi Obiora.

Other author Gordon, Edmund W., editor.
Other author Jean-Louis, Betina, editor.
Other author Obiora, Nkechi, editor.
Format Electronic
PublicationNew York : Routledge, 2018.
Copyright Date©2018
Description1 online resource
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
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Contents Comprehensive education and family resource centers for the 21st century / Edmund W. Gordon, Paola C. Heincke, & Andrew C. Shurtleff -- Building communities of opportunity : equity, education and the agenda for change? / Angela Glover Blackwell -- The role of family and home in children's intellectual development / E.B. Campbell and E.W. Gordon -- Community life and resources as settings for learning / Emile Sessions and Edmund W. Gordon -- The special role of schooling in the development of?academic ability of children and youth / Eleanor Armour-Thomas -- Closing the education gap : the hidden potential of the black church / Carey H. Latimore -- Community schools : a strategy, not a program / Jane Quinn -- The eagle academy for young men : an exemplar of the comprehensive practice of education / Carol Bonilla Bowman, Ed. D. Edmund W. Gordon, Ed. D -- Creating a village that nurtures children at the Harlem Children's Zone / Betina Jean-Louis -- Engaging african american youth in social change and community building through cooperative economic development / Jessica Gordon Nembhard, E. Wyatt Gordon and Stephen M. Nembhard -- High performance learning communities / Edmund W. Gordon, Andrew C. Shurtleff & Ishan E. Gordon -- Recontextualizing the achievement gap through neighborhoods of promise / A.J. Franklin.
Abstract Drawing on a range of contexts influenced by the Promise Neighborhoods Program--a fediferal 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. Chapter authors demonstrate that the disparities in educational achievement between white and non-white students can only be addressed by a holistic approach that takes the communities in which schools are situated as its focal point. This edited collection distills the insights gained from the communities implementing such comprehensive education programs and provides the framework and models for reproducing such successes.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 8, 2017).
Issued in other formPrint version: Strengthening families, communities, and schools to support children's development. New York : Routledge, 2018 1138062227 9781138062221
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