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<p>There are so many ideas in this book that choosing a few to highlight here is as difficult as tasting only three items from a smorgasborg after a fast. . . . [Jones and Maloy's] comments will prompt knowing nods of the head from most who have experience with partnerships, and they provide starting points for novices' serious consideration. For example, the book raises critical questions about different approaches to partnerships. Should partnerships be primarily grass-roots efforts with little top-down control? If so, what issues are off limits to governance bodies? If partnerships can bring about improvements suggested, should they become a way of life for university-school relations? If so, how can long-term partnerships maintain the insider-outsider perspectives Jones and Maloy argue for so persuasively? . . . Partnerships for Improving Schools addresses these and many other questions. Most importantly, perhaps, it forcefull and directly reminds us that equity is the central criterion agains which to measure educational progress. <i>Teachers College Record</i></p> <p>In this volume Jones and Maloy present a comprehensive framework for viewing, understanding, and participating

Author

Byrd L. Jones and Robert W. Maloy

Publisher

Greenwood Press, Inc., 88 Post Road West, Box 5007, Westport, CT 06881 ($35.00)

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9780313255946

Subjects

Education