Emerging Issues
in School, Family, & Community Connections
Annual Synthesis 2001
SEDL – Advancing Research, Improving Education
Emerging Issues
in School, Family, & Community Connections
Annual Synthesis 2001
Catherine Jordan
Evangelina Orozco
Amy Averett
Contributors
Joan Buttram
Marilyn Fowler
Deborah Donnelly
Margaret Myers
Lacy Wood
National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Executive Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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