Synopsis
This handbook describes why and how to implement a partnership like Project STEP, which achieved extraordinary success in raising the academic aspirations and achievements of students in a school district composed currently of 56% language minority students. Project STEP has received both state and national recognition for its achievements as a partnership. The National Commission on Excellence in Education cited STEP in A Nation Responds, the sequel to the Nation at Risk report. The project has been included by The College Board as a national program model for university/school partnerships in the Educational Equality Project Models Program. The California Academic Partnership Program (CAPP) selected Project STEP as a showcase project to demonstrate the power of this collaborative model to effect necessary educational reform. Co-published with Project STEP, University of California, Irvine.
Review
Based on one of the most successful collaborative programs, this book has dozens of practical suggestions about what to do (and not to do) in creating and running partnerships. It is sure to help anyone who has started or is about to start one of theseprograms. (Mike Atkin, Professor, Stanford University Educational Leadership)
The educational agenda of the decade...This book should be read by policy makers concerned with helping American schools realize the rich potential of our nation's multi-cultural population. (Arturo Madrid, President, Tomas Rivera Center Educational Leadership)
The fundamental contributions of the university to K-12 curricular reforms and the integral connections between educational excellence and diversity are evident throughout this excellent book.... (Bill Honig, Superintendent of Public Instruction, State of California Educational Leadership)
I commend this effort and hope that many partnerships, similar in principle though distinct according to local needs, follow. (Ted Sizer, Director, Coalition of Essential Schools Educational Leadership)
We need more educational architects to construct such essential bridges between schools and universities. Manuel Gomez and his colleagues deserve our respect for the excellent work reflected in this stimulating innovation. (David Hamburg, President, Carnegie Corporation of New York Educational Leadership)
...this book is a rich resource and should be priority reading for educational leaders hoping to contribute to the reform initiatives of the '90s! (Educational Leadership)
Based on one of the most successful collaborative programs, this book has dozens of practical suggestions about what to do (and not to do) in creating and running partnerships. It is sure to help anyone who has started or is about to start one of these programs. (Mike Atkin, Professor, Stanford University Educational Leadership)
The educational agenda of the decade...This book should be read by policy makers concerned with helping American schools realize the rich potential of our nation's multi-cultural population. (Arturo Madrid, President, Tomas Rivera Center Educational Leadership)
The fundamental contributions of the university to K-12 curricular reforms and the integral connections between educational excellence and diversity are evident throughout this excellent book.... (Bill Honig, Superintendent of Public Instruction, State of California Educational Leadership)
I commend this effort and hope that many partnerships, similar in principle though distinct according to local needs, follow. (Ted Sizer, Director, Coalition of Essential Schools Educational Leadership)
We need more educational architects to construct such essential bridges between schools and universities. Manuel Gomez and his colleagues deserve our respect for the excellent work reflected in this stimulating innovation. (David Hamburg, President, Carnegie Corporation of New York Educational Leadership)
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