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Effective schools engage a wide range of families and community members to support their award?winning programs. This monograph highlights exemplary examples of communities, including foundations, community organizers, non?profit organizations, community agencies, as well as school districts, that lead successful group, school, district and state level initiatives to improve educational outcomes. Practitioners and scholars join hands to share promising practices and research?based examples of community initiatives that have had positive impacts on families, schools, and communities. This monograph is vital to educational leadership preparation programs; education policymakers at the local, state, and national levels; school and district level administrators; and a broad range of community leaders.
These five essays share the theme that community education will become the primary focus in the continuing development of of the community college as a comprehensive, community-based institution. After Suzanne Fletcher's introduction to the monograph, Holly Jellison reviews the activities and summarizes the roundtable discussions of the Center for Community Education. The next article, "The Mycelium of Community Education: An Ideological Definition" by Robert J. Shoop, offers observations and reflections about the concept of community education and suggests that definitions of community education should focus on goals and objectives rather than on programs or strategies. Clyde LeTarte's article, "Community Education and the Community College: Problems and Promises," looks at the new place of community education in the community college mission, the factors which will influence this role, and the resulting needs in the areas of needs assessment, quality control and management, research and development, and financial support. Next, James F. Gollattscheck, in his essay, "Improving the Body Politic," envisions the community as a complex living organism and submits that learning to work with the various elements which comprise the total community should be a foremost priority for community colleges. Finally, Robert B. Young presents an analysis of a national survey of community education programs and services at community colleges, which includes the questionnaire. (AYC)