Posts by Center for Community Schooling Team

Colleges and universities across the United States—especially public institutions with a mandate to provide local support and access—typically struggle to find ways to form strong, collaborative and mutually beneficial partnerships with their communities. However, at UCLA, they have developed a…

In this article, Karen Hunter Quartz, Carola Suárez-Orozco and Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco assert that strong school communities hold the key to establishing a college-going culture, especially for immigrant students. By working together with parents, students, teachers, researchers, and like-minded philanthropic…

This study explores how educational leaders and community-based organizations collaborated to bring about unprecedented education reform in the nation’s second largest school district. This historical case study is based on in-depth interviews with 11 high-profile school district, union, community, and…