P-20 Partnerships: A Critical Examination of the Past and the Future

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Tracing the historical development of partnerships between schools, universities, and communities, P-20 Partnerships: A Critical Examination of the Past and Future provides educators and policymakers with a framework for understanding how partnerships originated and their potential for the future. This book connects Dewey's lab schools, Goodlad's ideas about simultaneous renewal, and Professional Development Schools with today's next-generation P-20 partnerships and Cradle-to-Career networks. After examining the history and development of P-20 partnerships, we are able to categorize partnerships into three different types, depending on the purpose of their outcomes: partnerships to improve P-12 schools, partnerships to improve access to post-secondary opportunities, and Research-Practice Partnerships. Rather than categorizing partnerships by their activities and curricula, this book proposes that their goals for their students are what should define these school systems.

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Dr. Smith offers practical, compelling advice for those who want the best in P-20 partnerships. Her unparalleled history traces the evolution from one-way partnerships dominated by institutions of higher education to two-way, reciprocal partnerships, with the expanding engagement of community agencies, the work-force sector, and parents, accompanied by an increasing focus on outcome versus input accountability. Commendably, Dr. Smith is careful throughout to address the racial and gender implications of her narrative. I applaud the author for driving our categorization of modern P-20 partnerships to a more rigorous, outcome-oriented basis.

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Elizabeth E. Smith is assistant professor of education at the University of Tulsa.