New Report: Community Organizing Missing Piece in Education Reform Puzzle
Research States Connection to Community Necessary to Sustain Results
QUINCY, Mass., Jan. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- To improve prospects for the future of both New England and the nation as a whole, the number of people who obtain the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in postsecondary education, work and life must increase dramatically. Many education reform efforts that attempt to achieve this goal through the development of new models of learning often find it difficult to maintain momentum. According to new research synthesized by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform (AISR) at Brown University for the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, community organizing can offer a much-needed and often-ignored component to education reform efforts and can help ensure long-term sustainability of school and district improvement.
The new report, entitled The Strengths & Challenges of Community Organizing as an Education Reform Strategy, examines the growing body of existing literature on community organizing for school reform, including individual case studies, regional and national scans of the field, investigations of why reform efforts matter, and a large study documenting the impact of community organizing on education policy, school capacity and student educational outcomes across organizations.
