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how schools and communities help students overcome the disadvantages of poverty
With poverty and inequality on the rise and large achievement gaps remaining despite decades of school reform, Weiss and Reville make the case for a large-scale expansion of community-school partnerships in order to provide integrated student supports (ISS) from cradle to careers.
Part 1. Making the case for integrated student supports: Why integrated student supports? -- Integrated student support communities: models of progress -- Part 2. Integrated student support strategies: Personalizing support to meet every child's needs -- Harnessing the power of the faith community -- Integrated student supports in rural communities -- Empowering parents to improve student well-being -- Using promise scholarships to create community-wide integrated student supports -- Empowering mayors to create citywide supports: the by all means consortium -- Advancing college and career readiness through integrated student supports -- Part 3. The path forward: Community schools: a promising model for building a movement -- Financing integrated student supports at scale -- Bringing it together: moving integrated student supports into the mainstream.
Includes bibliographical references and index.