Home, School, and Community Partnerships

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This book will help educators weave some of the best ideas for creating and sustaining family and community engagement into a comprehensive home-school-community partnership program tailored to their individual communities.

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Larry and Virginia Decker have clearly shown us how to close the 'growing gulf between the American public and its public schools.' (p. v) This book has a broad and practical appeal to a variety of audiences. Administrators wishing to start a new program or improve an existing one will find valuable guidelines. Classroom teachers will better understand why and how greater community involvement and interaction can make their jobs easier. School board members will find extensive justification of the intrinsic value of such programs as will school-level or community-based leaders. Researchers will find the extensive bibliographical citations a treasure trove... * Education Review *
Larry and Virginia Decker have clearly shown us how to close the 'growing gulf between the American public and its public schools.' (p. v) This book has a broad and practical appeal to a variety of audiences. Administrators wishing to start a new program or improve an existing one will find valuable guidelines. Classroom teachers will better understand why and how greater community involvement and interaction can make their jobs easier. School board members will find extensive justification of the intrinsic value of such programs as will school-level or community-based leaders. Researchers will find the extensive bibliographical citations a treasure trove. * Education Review *

Author Bio

Larry E. Decker is the Charles Stewart Mott Professor and Eminent Scholar Chair in Community Education at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. Virginia A. Decker is managing editor and senior consultant of Community Collaborators in Boca Raton, Florida.