Strengthening Families, Communities, and Schools to Support Children's Development

Edmund W. Gordon is the Emeritus John Musser Professor of Psychology at Yale University, and Richard March Hoe Professor at Columbia University, Teachers College, USA.Betina Jean-Louis is the Director of Research and Evaluation for the Harlem Children's Zone, USA.Nkechi Obiora is a consultant with Farafina Shirikiano Communications, USA.

• PART ONEForeword Geoffrey Canada Chapter 1 Comprehensive Education and Family Resource Centers for the 21st Century Edmund W. Gordon, Paola C. Heincke, & Andrew C. Shurtleff Chapter 2 Building Communities of Opportunity: Equity, Education and the Agenda for Change Angela Glover Blackwell Chapter 3 The Role of Family and Home in Children’s Intellectual Development E.B. Campbell and Edmund W. Gordon Chapter 4 Community Life and Resources as Settings for Learning Emile Sessions and Edmund W. Gordon Chapter 5 The Special Role of Schooling in the Development of Academic Ability of Children and Youth Eleanor Armour-Thomas Chapter 6 Closing the Education Gap: The Hidden Potential of the Black Church Carey H. Latimore PART TWOChapter 7 Community Schools: A Strategy, Not a Program Jane Quinn Chapter 8 The Eagle Academy for Young Men: An Exemplar of the Comprehensive Practice of Education Carol Bonilla Bowman, Ed.D. Edmund W. Gordon, Ed.D. Chapter 9 Creating a Village that Nurtures Children at the Harlem Children’s Zone Betina Jean-Louis Chapter 10 Engaging African American Youth in Social Change and Community Building through Cooperative Economic DevelopmentJessica Gordon Nembhard, E. Wyatt Gordon and Stephen M. Nembhard Chapter 11High Performance Learning Communities Edmund W. Gordon, Andrew C. Shurtleff & Ishan E. Gordon Afterword Recontextualizing the achievement gap through Neighborhoods of Promise A.J. Franklin