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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Emergent Evidence in Support of a Community Collaboration Model for School Improvement
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Anderson-Butcher, Dawn; Lawson, Hal A.; Iachini, Aidyn; Flaspohler, Paul; Bean, Jerry; Wade-Mdivanian, Rebecca – Children & Schools, 2010
Community collaboration models expand conventional school improvement planning, which tends to be walled in, building centered, and bracketed by school and district boundaries. These community models enable educators, social workers, and other school professionals to form sustainable, strategic partnerships with families, community agencies,…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Public Agencies, School Social Workers, Social Work
Social Workers' Roles in Facilitating the Collective Involvement of Low-Income, Culturally Diverse Parents in an Elementary School
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Alameda-Lawson, Tania; Lawson, Michael A.; Lawson, Hal A. – Children & Schools, 2010
Social workers have pivotal roles to play in facilitating collective parent involvement in economically poor school communities. Using a community-based, participatory, and empowerment-oriented approach to social work practice and research, this study provides empirical support for this claim. It examines the narratives of 17 economically poor…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, School Social Workers
Community Collaboration to Improve Schools: Introducing a New Model from Ohio
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Anderson-Butcher, Dawn; Lawson, Hal A.; Bean, Jerry; Flaspohler, Paul; Boone, Barbara; Kwiatkowski, Amber – Children & Schools, 2008
Conventional school improvement models traditionally involve "walled-in" approaches. These models focus primarily on academic learning strategies in response to standards-based accountabilities. Although positive outcomes have been documented, expanded school improvement models such as the Ohio Community Collaboration Model for School Improvement…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Strategies, Cooperation, Educational Change