Introduction
William J. Kritek, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Section I: Models of Coordination: Implications from Field Research

1: The Kentucky Family Resource Centers: The Challenges of Remaking Family-School Interactions
Claire Smrekar, Vanderbilt University

2: Visible Differences and Unseen Commonalities: Viewing Students as the Connections Between School and Communities
H. Dickson Corbett, Bruce WIlson, and Jaci Webb, Research for Better Schools

3: Conflict and Consensus: The Bitter and Sweet in a Community-School Coalition
Paul E. Heckman, W. Reed Scull, University of Arizona; and Sharon Conley, University of California, Santa Barbara

4: The Best of Both Worlds: Connecting Schools and Community Youth Organizations for All-Day, All-Year Learning
Shirley Brice Heath and Milbrey W. McLaughlin, Stanford University

5: Educating Homeless Children: One Experiment in Collaboration
Rebecca L. Newman and Lynn G. Beck, University of California, Los Angeles

Section II: Organizational and Management Issues Surrounding Coordination

6: Structure and Strategies: Toward an Understanding of Alternative Models for Coordinated Children's Services
Robert L. Crowson, Vanderbilt University and William Lowe Boyd, Pennsylvania State University

7: The Principal and Community-School Connections in Chicago's Radical Reform
Mark A. Smylie, Robert L. Crowson, Vanderbilt University, Victoria Chou and Rebekah A. Levin, University of Illinois at Chicago

8: Schools as Intergovernmental Partners: Administrator Perceptions of Expanded Programming for Children
Carolyn Herrington, Florida State University

9: Institutional Effects of Strategic Efforts at Community Enrichment
Hanne B. Mawhinney, University of Ottawa

10: School-Business-University Collaboratives: The Economics of Organizational Choice
Patrick F. Galvin, University of Utah

11: Reforming American Educational Policy for the Twenty-first Century
Deborah A. Verstegen, University of Virginia

Section III: Evaluation and Critiques of Coordination as a Reform

12: We're Not Housed in an Institution, We're Housed in the Community: Possibilities and Consequences of Neighborhood-based Interagency Collaboration
Colleen A. Capper, University of Wisconsin-Madison

13: Schools and Community Connections: Applying a Sociological Framework
Gail Chase Furman, Washington State University and Carol Merz, University of Puget Sound

14: Connecting Schools and Communities Through Interagency Collaboration For School-Linked Services
Debra Shaver, Shari Golan, and Mary Wagner, SRI International

15: Beyond Consensus: Mapping Divergent Views of Systems and Power in Collaboratives
Maureen W. McClure, Bruce A. Jones, and Eugenie Potter, University of Pittsburgh

Conclusion: Toward an Interpretation of School, Family, and Community Connections: Policy Challenges
James G. Cibulka, University of Wisconsin-Madison

About the Editors and Authors

Index