Diverse Partnerships for Student Success

Diverse Partnerships for Student Success is based on the deep conviction that schools function best in collaboration with the larger community. It offers strategies and tolls to help educational leaders create successful partnerships in a socioeconomically and culturally diverse society and presents information on how to identify relevant demographic trends to address the educational, cultural, vocational, and recreational needs of students and citizens.

Grounded in ISLLC and NCATE standards, the book offers comprehensive, research-based information; concrete program ideas; and numerous Internet sites for additional help in creating and sustaining family and community engagement. It presents strategies for involving people-individually and collectively-in agencies, businesses, and organizations to mobilize the resources of the entire community. Diverse Partnerships for Student Success will assist educational and community leaders in developing, implementing, and sustaining a comprehensive partnership system that helps all children succeed academically.

Larry E. Decker is the Charles Stewart Mott professor and eminent scholar chair of community education at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. He was formerly associate dean of the College of Education and director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Community Education at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Virginia A. Decker is managing editor of Community Collaborators in Boca Raton, Florida. Formerly, she was the facilitator of the National Community Education Computer Network, an international teleconferencing system.

Pamela M. Brown has held several leadership positions in local government and state social services agencies. She is currently the Ernest Melby fellow at Florida Atlantic University where she gained her master's degree and is now completing her Ph.D. in educational leadership.