21st Century Community Learning Centers: Providing Quality Afterschool Learning Opportunities for America's Families |
Describes the 21st Century Community Learning Center program, authorized under Title X, Part I, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, to help families and communities keep their children... |
08/31/2000 |
A Citizen's Action Guide, National Symposium on School Design: Schools as Centers of Community. |
This draft publication outlines a strategy for creating community schools. It addresses how community schools can help meet some challenges of creating learning environments, and outlines a process... |
10/04/1998 |
A College in the City: An Alternative. |
Presents a new way of looking at the urban university. It describes the planning effort for a nonconventional college in the poor urban community of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant section. This... |
02/28/1969 |
A Concerned Citizen's Guide to Community School Centers. |
Organized as a series of responses to questions about characteristics of community school centers, how the coordinated services work, shared space, governance, financing, planning, examples of... |
12/31/1977 |
A Look at Community Schools. |
Provides an overview of community school strategies in the United States and how community schools can decrease poverty's detrimental effect on students. The report highlights the examples where... |
09/30/2009 |
A New Strategy for Building Better Neighborhoods. |
Presents a community redevelopment model that proposes partnering with an intermediary organization to engage in predevelopment project planning that leverages bond financing for a variety of... |
09/30/2002 |
A New Urbanist Model of Learning. |
Profiles the Walker Creek Elementary School in North Richland Hills, Texas. The new school in a new residential development is conceived as a community center, and features outdoor learning areas,... |
05/31/2007 |
A Place of Their Own: Designing Quality Spaces for Out-of- School Time. |
This video, and the accompanying implementation guide, provides information on how to improve existing space or build a new facility, suggestions for designing space to meet the safety, comfort, and... |
12/31/1999 |
A Resource Book on Community School Centers. |
Presents a compendium of resources for planning community school centers which includes 1) recent literature on community school centers and interagency cooperation, reference books, catalogues,... |
01/31/1979 |
A Successful Partnership. |
Profiles Portland, Oregon's Rosa Parks School, including an overview of the school's design, educational and community program, and numerous green features. |
12/31/2007 |
A Team Effort. |
Reviews recent successes in the construciton of community schools and notes administrative and funding obstacles to a more widespread community schools movement. |
06/30/2009 |
After School Collaboration: When it Works - Why it Works - A Literature Review. |
This is a comprehensive review of literature that specifically addresses what makes an effective, successful after-school collaboration between community-based organizations and schools. |
12/31/2000 |
After-Hours Use of Schools. |
Describes current practices for after-hours use of schools in selected European countries, Canada, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Among the practices include public use of school... |
05/31/1999 |
Afterschool.gov |
Sponsored by the Interagency Executive Oversight Committee, this is a one-stop website to federal resources that support children and youth during out-of-school hours. Includes information on running... |
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All Together Now. |
Children learn best when their basic needs -- including food, shelter, and clothing -- are met and when their families are free from worry about employment, housing, health, and child care. Full-... |
02/29/2004 |
All Together Now: Sharing Responsibility for the Whole Child. |
Promotes the community school as a primary vehicle to address the needs of the whole child, emphasizing the convergence of expertise from educational and community institutions. Case studies of co-... |
06/30/2006 |
Alternative Use of K-12 School Buildings: Opportunities for Expanded Uses. |
This report examines the underutilization of K-12 school facilities and the advantages and disadvantages in expanding K- 12 school facilities beyond a 7-hour weekday. It concludes that the benefits... |
12/31/1999 |
An Educational Magnet. Public Involvement Creates a Community Gem |
The design of a major new school is a rare event in the life of a community. In many places, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Describes how the community and educators in Westbrook, Maine took... |
09/30/2011 |
And There's Pandemonium on the Field! |
Describes how a Plainfield (Indiana) middle school got parents and students more involved in their school through widespread participation in sports. Handling the costs associated with widespread... |
12/31/1998 |
Arne Duncan on Community Schools. |
Presents an interview with U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, promoting the concept of schools as centers of community, with emphasis on keeping school buildings open for extended hours and... |
12/31/2008 |
Auditoriums and Performance Spaces: Planning Flexible Spaces for Students and Communities. |
Discusses the steps in preparing performance space in schools that can serve both students and the community, including its shape, the stage, and storage. Reducing background noise and considerations... |
03/31/2000 |
Avoiding Past Mistakes. |
Advises on how to utilize school buildings in an environment of declining enrollment, without repeating the past mistake of abandoning, selling, or converting school property to other uses. |
11/30/2009 |
Balancing Innovation and Cost in Facility Planning. |
Profiles two joint use endeavors. The first is in Mason, Ohio, where a high school and community center share a site, yielding shared athletic facilities. The second is in Juneau, Alaska, where a... |
04/30/2006 |
Beating the High Cost of Libraries. |
A number of library projects show the cost-effectiveness of sharing space in buildings. Six tables provide statistics for new academic and public library buildings; additions and renovations;... |
11/30/1996 |
Better Schools For a New Century. |
Highlights portions of the Better Schools for a New Century conference, sponsored by the American Institute of Architects. Includes a speech on learning environments for the 21st century by Anne... |
04/18/1999 |