This book provides a unique examination on the ways in which educating
the whole child in the community school serves to ameliorate the
conditions of poverty and obstacles to learning faced by students. Using
a case study approach the book will highlight the successful journey of
one school that transformed itself into a community school. Given the
rise in poverty nation-wide and the unprecedented economic crisis, many
school districts are looking for innovative ways to garner resources for
their schools. The strategies outlined in this book will provide
suggestions for using the resources of community partnerships as a
framework for school renewal and improvement in student achievement. The
authors share their first hand experiences building a community school
from the ground up, as well as providing the national perspective on
community schools. Given the power of the community school, this book
concludes with a "call to action" for the dissemination of this model
and its embrace of whole child education