How Can Schools and Communities Work Together to Meet the Challenge?
Today, when we consider the new challenges confronting education--and our whole society--it seems especially difficult to know what we should expect from our schools. Challenges such as the gap in student achievement, violence and racial and ethnic tensions have a powerful and immediate impact on our schools. What do we want our students to know and be able to do? What can schools do to help them achieve these goals? What can we do, as a community, to help improve education?
Community members and schools need to work together to make education in their community all that it can be. Dialogue-to-change programs can help people build the trusting relationships necessary for long-term change. People from diverse backgrounds and experiences develop trust, understand each other's experiences, and work together on solutions.
Read profiles of programs making a difference on education in their communities