“Community Engagement: The Secret Ingredient”

Community Engagement: The Secret Ingredient is a good commentary from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform that provides a good critique of much that is done in the name of “community-based” place-based-initiatives in education.

Simply put, they tend to be foundation and professional-driven instead of led by community residents — including parents.

It’s a critique that I’ve often made of community schools, as well as other funder-initiated efforts.

I’m adding this post both to The Best Resources For Learning About Community Schools and to The Best Examples Of Parent Engagement Through Community Organizing.

You might also be interested in Private Foundations Have A Place (And Have To Be Kept In Their Place).

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