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Organized Communities, Stronger Schools: A Preview of Research Findings
10/29/2008
The Boston Foundation, 75 Arlington Street, 10th Floor, Boston, MA
Education organizers, researchers, and funders have long debated the impact of community organizing on student educational outcomes. Please join your education and community organizing funder colleagues for a briefing highlighting compelling new research and a local case example to add contour and perhaps even closure to this debate.
Please join from 12-3pm on October 29 to hear Principal Writer and Researcher Kavitha Mediratta of the Community Involvement Program housed at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform (AISR) at Brown University share the findings of a recent Charles Stewart Mott Foundation funded report, Organized Communities, Better Schools: A Preview of Research Findings. This substantive, data driven report chronicles the findings of a six-year study that demonstrates how youth and parent led community organizing for school reform has significant impact on resource decisions, school-level improvements, and student outcomes.
The session will also include the following elements: Overview of Charles Stewart Mott Foundation’s participation in and support of the report, Christine A.W. Doby, Program Officer, Pathways Out of Poverty, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation A review of the role of youth in district reform, Boston Public Schools representative (to be named) Presentation on research on education organizing, by Mark Warren, Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education Report out on local youth organizing group undertaking citywide education reform campaign to implement a mandatory high school civics curriculum, Jesus Genera, Director of Community Development and Organizing, Hyde Square Task Force (HSTF) Moderated question and answer period.
The co-sponsors of this briefing include Associated Grant Makers (AGM), the Barr Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Communities for Public Education Reform (CPER), Grantmakers for Education (GFE), and Merck Family Fund. The program is free for all interested grantmakers.
A light lunch will be served.
Register at http://www.agmconnect.org/events/detail.aspx?EventID=402
If you have any questions about this session, please contact Miki Akimoto of Associated Grant Makers or Brinda Maira of the Merck Family Fund.
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