This book examines community partnership schools in the USA. Authored by academics and practitioners, it provides an overview of how community schools work in practice, provides a historical context of the model, and demonstrates the importance of the university-community connection in their effective running. Above all, the book showcases how community partnership schools are educational equity solutions that provide support services to underserved students, families, and communities. It will appeal to students and scholars of public administration, public policy, public health, and education, as well as practitioners.

Examines the Community Partnership Schools model Demonstrates the importance and power of the connection between universities and communities Shows the impact of the CPS model based on empirical data

Autorentext

Jarrad D. Plante is Unit Leader for AmeriCorps NCCC FEMA Corps. His research interests include service-learning, community engagement and national service. He has published, presented, and won awards for his scholarship in these areas.

Amy Ellis is Director of the Center for Community Schools at the University of Central Florida, USA where she has helped grow Florida's community schools from a single-building concept in 2009 to a state-wide twenty-nine site initiative.

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Chapter 1. The community schools concept.- Chapter 2. The role universities play in primary and secondary schools: university-assisted community schools and community partnership schools.- Chapter 3. The community partnership schoolstm model.- Chapter 4. The ucf-certified community partnership schools tm standards and certification process: an asset-based approach to quality assurance and continuous improvement.- Chapter 5. Evans high school, a ucf-certified community partnership school: a case study of the comprehensive community school model.- Chapter 6. Children's Home Society of Florida's Lessons Learned.