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Making the Difference: Research and
Practice in Community Schools
from The Institute for Educational
Leadership's bi-monthly newsletter, IE Leadership Connections,
Volume 1, Number 5, May/June 2003
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http://www.bridges4kids.org.
Over 170 voices from the Coalition for Community Schools (CCS)
made it perfectly clear that community schools are a common
sense response to the dual challenges of educating and
developing America's youth at the release of "Making the
Difference: Research and Practice in Community Schools," a
report that contains evaluation findings from 20 community
school initiatives and offers recommendations for creating and
sustaining community schools.
http://www.communityschools.org/mtdhomepage_new.html#download
for the full report and executive summary. To listen to an audio
tape of selected panel discussions (including the voice of a
parent), go to
http://www.dfinstitute.org/webcast/iel.
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