1st Edition

Strengthening Families, Communities, and Schools to Support Children's Development Neighborhoods of Promise

Edited By Edmund W. Gordon, Betina Jean-Louis, Nkechi Obiora Copyright 2018
    204 Pages
    by Routledge

    204 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

    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.