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Community Schools in Action: Lessons from a Decade of Practice presents the Children's Aid Society's (CAS) approach to creating community schools for the 21st century. CAS began this work in New York City more than a decade ago and today operates thirteen such schools in the low-income neighbourhoods of Washington Heights, East Harlem, and the Bronx. Through a technical assistance center operated by CAS, hundreds of other schools across the country and the world are adapting this model. The contributors to the volume supply invaluable information about the selected program components based on their own experiences working with community schools. They describe how and why CAS started its community school initiative and explain how CAS community schools are organised, integrated with the school system, sustained, and evaluated.

Community schools --- Neighborhood schools --- Schools, Community --- Schools, Neighborhood --- Community and school --- Schools --- Urban schools --- Centralization --- Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.) --- CAS (Children's Aid Society) --- C.A.S. (Children's Aid Society)

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Over the past decade, community schools similar to those supported by Save the Children have been established in many developing countries, and especially in sub-Saharan Africa. As large numbers of children attend schools started and managed by their own communities and/or by nongovernmental organizations, questions have come up about the impact of such schools at large scale: "Can village-based or community schools have a national impact on access to education, spur improved long-term development strategies and education policy, or achieve or influence Education for All? This book explores these and related questions, drawing on Save the Children’s experience with community-based schooling in four countries: Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, and Uganda. The literature on community schools in Africa tends to be sparse, repetitive and highly descriptive with little or no sustained critique of practice. This book fills a substantial gap in the education literature and is particularly timely, given the current emphasis on decentralization and community involvement in education. Save the Children has been a pioneer in the community school movement, particularly in Africa. Community schools are created in areas where access to education is limited or non-existent. The community school approach has been recognized for its easy replicability, cost-effectiveness and dramatic improvements in basic education for children in need.

Community schools --- Community and school --- School and community --- Schools --- Parents' and teachers' associations --- Neighborhood schools --- Schools, Community --- Schools, Neighborhood --- Urban schools --- Centralization --- Early childhood education. --- Administration, Organization and Leadership. --- Educational Policy and Politics. --- International and Comparative Education. --- Early Childhood Education. --- Education --- School management and organization. --- School administration. --- Educational policy. --- Education and state. --- International education . --- Comparative education. --- Child development. --- Child study --- Children --- Development, Child --- Developmental biology --- Education, Comparative --- Global education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Administration, Educational --- Educational administration --- Inspection of schools --- Operation policies, School --- Policies, School operation --- School administration --- School inspection --- School operation policies --- School organization --- Management --- Organization --- Development --- History --- Government policy --- Inspection --- Management and organization

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Robert Goodin passionately and cogently defends the welfare state from current attacks by the New Right. But he contends that the welfare state finds false friends in those on the Old Left who would justify it as a hesitant first step toward some larger, ideally just form of society. Reasons for Welfare, in contrast, offers a defense of the minimal welfare state substantially independent of any such broader commitments, and at the same time better able to withstand challenges from the New Right's moralistic political economy. This defense of the existence of the welfare state is discussed, flanked by criticism of Old Left and New Right arguments that is both acute and devastating. In the author's view, the welfare state is best justified as a device for protecting needy--and hence vulnerable--members of society against the risk of exploitation by those possessing discretionary control over resources that they require. Its task is to protect the interests of those not in a position to protect themselves. Communitarian or egalitarian ideals may lead us to move beyond the welfare state as thus conceived and justified. Moving beyond it, however, does not invalidate the arguments for constantly maintaining at least the minimal protections necessary for vulnerable members of society.

Welfare state. --- Social justice. --- Bryan, William Jennings. --- Catholic Benevolent Fund. --- Gross National Product (GNF). --- Harrington, Michael. --- Heclo, Hugh. --- Joseph, Sir Keith. --- Keynesianism. --- Laffer curve. --- absolute needs. --- activist welfare state. --- adverse selection. --- air pollution. --- apartheid policies. --- bias and impartiality. --- capital distribution. --- clientelism in welfare. --- closet altruism. --- collective conscience. --- commercialization and services. --- conditional needs. --- contingent freedom. --- culture of poverty. --- defense contracts. --- disability insurance. --- duty of care concept. --- earnings, and labor supply. --- economic justice. --- entailed estates. --- extra-market allocation. --- farm relief. --- flagrant violation concept. --- formal discretion. --- fraternal organizations. --- generosity. --- gift relationship: altruism. --- humanism, and dependency. --- intentional discrimination. --- involuntary needs. --- laissez-faire. --- loss from exploitation. --- macroeconomics. --- mainstreaming. --- neighborhood schools. --- no choice standard. --- objective needs. --- obligations-based welfare. --- parenta. --- parole boards. --- personal deserts. --- positive discrimination. --- quality control. --- residential patterns.