Creating Engagement between Schools and their Communities: Lessons from Educational Leaders addresses how educational leaders have made efforts to reconnect their schools to their communities and the varied goals they achieved. The contributors of this book are educational leaders who have stayed committed to their neighborhoods and who have seen the moral imperative to provide equal opportunity to all students. This book shares their experiences, particularly looking at community-based schools in urban, impoverished, or immigrant communities-communities that often are disconnected from the political and economic centers of the country.

About the Author
Ted Purinton is dean of the Graduate School of Education at the American University in Cairo (AUC). Carlos Azcoitia is distinguished professor of practice at National Louis University in Chicago.

Reviews
Often rural schools and communities are overlooked when considering the current circumstances and future prospects for students and families in our most remote places. The authors and contributors have done an outstanding job in focusing on this population and why leadership is so critical to the success and vitality of rural people and places. -- Robert Mahaffey, Rural School and Community Trust



Book Information
ISBN 9781498521741
Author Ted Purinton
Format Hardback
Page Count 160
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 408g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 159mm * 18mm