Addresses the cooperation between the Centre for Canadian Contemporary Art (CCCA) and Confederation High School in Nepean (Ontario) focusing on student involvement within the CCCA project. Highlights the students' efforts to promote the CCCA's corporate image by creating a logo for letterheads, envelopes, and business cards. (CMK)

Explores Miami-Dade Community College's (MDCC) internal reforms and community collaborations developed in response to new urban challenges. Defines the urban community college, reports on the workforce partnerships MDCC has developed with its surrounding industries, discusses issues of building on tradition, educating the legislature, and the…

Teacher and songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie founded the Cradleboard Teaching Project in 1996. The project provides core curriculum through Native American eyes to all learners and promotes cross-cultural partnerships in which widely distant classrooms study Native American culture together. Interactive, multimedia CD-ROMS were designed for grade 6…

Highlights the Annenberg Foundation (Annenberg III) initiative for arts-education reform that challenged other New York philanthropic organizations to match their 12 million dollars for the public school systems. Reveals the plans for the Center for Arts Education that is the Annenberg III program hub and criticisms of the program. (CMK)

Montclair (New Jersey) State University's Center of Pedagogy has created successful tripartite partnerships among the university's schools of arts and sciences, its education program, and local school districts. Teacher candidates must develop expertise in desired education areas and have field experiences in both urban and suburban settings. (MLH)

National Board certified teachers should work with select colleges of education in developing better teachers. Such teachers have many of the same goals as colleges of education--developing competencies and measuring these via student performance. Ashland (Ohio) University's pilot project is a model college-school partnership. (MLH)

Describes the Alliance for Better Schools, a partnership established in 1987 between Trinity University and Mark Twain Middle School in San Antonio, Texas. Discusses the partnership's goals, including providing in-depth, multicultural experience for preservice teachers in a school committed to middle level philosophy and recognized as a leader in…

Stresses that symphony orchestras and other professional arts organizations need to improve young people's concerts by accounting for student learning and becoming partners with music educators. Provides an experience hierarchy that helps artists and arts organizations benefit from music teachers' knowledge and a list of five elements to consider…

Reviews literature on partnerships between educators at school and university sites, exploring the range of barriers encountered by teachers of future teachers. The research indicates that such partnerships are desirable, achievable, and sustainable, and it acknowledges that it is the attitudes and dispositions of the individuals within the…

Addresses how the resources of public libraries and youth-serving organizations can work together to support young people and expand their opportunities. Summarizes ways librarians are developing effective strategies to engage youth who formerly felt alienated from public libraries and describes ways public libraries are connecting with community…

Describes technology use in Union City (New Jersey) schools. Explains a Bell Atlantic partnership that provided computers; and discusses a course designed by the Center for Children and Technology (CCT) to build student experts in technology, including relationships with community agencies, HTML, Web site design, storyboarding, using Spanish and…

A community economic development organization in rural Ireland partnered with a technical college to build a college to teach furniture design and manufacturing, with an emphasis on entrepreneurship and new production technologies. The college has been successful in attracting good students and helping them find employment. A research and…

Describes the information technology (IT) services, infrastructure, budget, and successes of the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium in order to provide a model for schools looking to expand their learning technologies while containing the costs of development and maintaining pedagogical effectiveness. (EV)

In an initiative called Sustaining and Strengthening Teachers, the University of Washington College of Education is partnering with other institutions and with school districts in four states to develop a "more coherent continuum of support" for new teachers. The program includes mentoring and continuing professional development through…

Most school-to-career initiatives are limited to career education and applied learning, combining academic basics and workplace readiness skills. A high-school credentialing system would offer a structured pathway to academic and technical credentials, requiring that students earn a college-placement readiness credential and industry-recognized…