Description: Addresses a relatively new emphasis in the educational reform movement, the attempt to improve linkages between schools, families, and communities in the delivery of support services to children.
Review Quotes:
"This book helps us think about what might properly constitute a democratic school mission. It illustrates the potential for school constituents to play a larger role in shaping policy and practice. It presents coordinated services as a way to alter the institutional politics of schooling.
"Given the growing numbers of people working in the service sector, the resources directed at this area, and the calls for greater efficiency throughout social services, all in the midst of increasing social problems, I think professionals in diverse occupations will find this work illuminating." -- Kathleen Densmore, San Jose State University