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Community Partnerships: Ways Community Groups and Schools Can Effectively Partner

How community groups and schools can establish and maintain partnerships that benefit local schools.

by Edutopia Staff

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Community members and school leaders interested in creating partnerships or learning more about the school/community partnerships should find these Web sites helpful:

Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania (www.upenn.edu/ccp)

Communities in Schools (www.cisnet.org)

Institute for Educational Leadership (www.iel.org)

National Network of Partnership Schools (www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000)

For additional resources, check out the Big List.

This article originally published on 2/22/2001

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