Webinar: The Promise of Universities in School Reform

Posted by on January 13, 2014

The Netter Center for Community Partnerships at Penn would like to bring to your attention a recent thematically based issue of the Peabody Journal of Education on  “Higher Education’s Role in Public School Reform and Community Engagement” edited by Robert F. Kronick, Jessica Nina Lester and D. Gavin Luter.

Ira Harkavy, the Netter Center’s founding director, along with Rita Axelroth Hodges, the assistant director, and Joann Weeks, the associate director, collaborated with Matthew Hartley, an associate professor from Penn’s Graduate School of Education to write the lead article on  “The Promise of University-Assisted Community Schools to Transform American Schooling: A Report From the Field, 1985-2012.”  The article details the development of Penn’s partnerships with local schools and community organizations in West Philadelphia. It also outlines how Penn’s University-Assisted Community School approach has been successfully replicated nationally.

The Penn article is available at:

http://www.nettercenter.upenn.edu/sites/netter_internal/files/Harkavy_Hartley_Hodges_Weeks_Peabody_Journal.pdf.

If your college or university subscribes to the Peabody Journal, the full issue is available at:

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hpje20/current

We hope you enjoy the article and welcome comments that are sent directly to the Netter Center authors.

Webinar: The Promise of Universities in School Reform, January 31, 2014, 3 – 4 PM EST

On January 31, 2014, 3:00-4:00 PM EST,  the Coalition for Community Schools at the Institute for Educational Leadership is hosting a webinar, co-sponsored by the Anchor Institutions Task Force and the Netter Center for Community Partnerships that will feature highlights from this issue of the Peabody Journal.

Speakers include:
·         Dr. Ira Harkavy, Associate Vice President and Director, Netter Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
·         Dr. Henry Taylor, Founding Director, Center for Urban Studies, University of Buffalo (Buffalo, NY)
·         Dr. Mary Walsh, Department Director, Boston College Center for Optimized Student Support, Boston College (Boston, MA)
·         Dr. Robert Kronick, Director of University-Assisted Community Schools, University of Tennessee Knoxville (Knoxville, TN)

For more information and to register, visit: http://www.communityschools.org/multimedia/webinars.aspx