Drawing on a range of contexts influenced by the Promise Neighborhoods Program—a federal 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.
Edited by:
Edmund W. Gordon,
Betina Jean-Louis,
Nkechi Obiora
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138062221
ISBN 10: 1138062227
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 15 September 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
PART ONE Foreword Geoffrey Canada Chapter 1 Comprehensive Education and Family Resource Centers for the 21st Century Edmund W. Gordon, Paola C. Heincke, & Andrew C. Shurtleff Chapter 2 Building Communities of Opportunity: Equity, Education and the Agenda for Change Angela Glover Blackwell Chapter 3 The Role of Family and Home in Children’s Intellectual Development E.B. Campbell and Edmund W. Gordon Chapter 4 Community Life and Resources as Settings for Learning Emile Sessions and Edmund W. Gordon Chapter 5 The Special Role of Schooling in the Development of Academic Ability of Children and Youth Eleanor Armour-Thomas Chapter 6 Closing the Education Gap: The Hidden Potential of the Black Church Carey H. Latimore PART TWO Chapter 7 Community Schools: A Strategy, Not a Program Jane Quinn Chapter 8 The Eagle Academy for Young Men: An Exemplar of the Comprehensive Practice of Education Carol Bonilla Bowman, Ed.D. Edmund W. Gordon, Ed.D. Chapter 9 Creating a Village that Nurtures Children at the Harlem Children’s Zone Betina Jean-Louis Chapter 10 Engaging African American Youth in Social Change and Community Building through Cooperative Economic Development Jessica Gordon Nembhard, E. Wyatt Gordon and Stephen M. Nembhard Chapter 11 High Performance Learning Communities Edmund W. Gordon, Andrew C. Shurtleff & Ishan E. Gordon Afterword Recontextualizing the achievement gap through Neighborhoods of Promise A.J. Franklin
Edmund W. Gordon is the Emeritus John Musser Professor of Psychology at Yale University, and Richard March Hoe Professor at Columbia University, Teachers College, USA. Betina Jean-Louis is the Director of Research and Evaluation for the Harlem Children's Zone, USA. Nkechi Obiora is a consultant with Farafina Shirikiano Communications, USA.
