Collaborative Action for Equity and Opportunity provides a how-to guide for education, government, and community leaders interested in creating cross-sector systems of support for students. These collaborations strive to close achievement and opportunity gaps and to help children overcome problems stemming from poverty, racism, and other societal ills.

Based on a framework developed at Harvard's By All Means Initiative, Paul Reville and Lynne Sacks walk readers through the process of jump-starting a successful collaboration between school, government, and community leaders. The authors describe how to form a local Children's Cabinet to lead the effort, identify goals and strategies, and ensure the long-term sustainability of the collaboration.

In addition to a clear sequential set of implementation steps, Reville and Sacks provide field-tested tools, examples of communities that have undertaken this work, and specific strategies and guidance gleaned from their collaborations with more than thirty communities across the country.

Collaborative Action for Equity and Opportunity highlights the roles that school and municipal leaders play in creating comprehensive systems of support and opportunity for all children in a community.

About the Author
Paul Reville is the Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and the founding director of HGSE's Education Redesign Lab.

Lynne Sacks is the research director at the Education Redesign Lab and a lecturer at HGSE.


Book Information
ISBN 9781682535950
Author Paul Reville
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Harvard Educational Publishing Group
Publisher Harvard Educational Publishing Group
Weight(grams) 263g
Dimensions(mm) 226mm * 149mm * 10mm