16.017 - Partnerships for School Reform in Urban Education: Models, Dynamics, and Challenges

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium shares research on four high-schools whose creation or reform aims to narrow the achievement gap for socially marginalized youth in inner-city contexts. Each school is supported by, or built around, partnership with a university and/or community organizations. The four schools exist within very different social and educational policy contexts: public/charter; U.S./Canadian; varied size. This comparative exploration allows the four sites to learn from each other, exploring aspects of school reform which might be transferable and which might be context-specific, given the uniqueness of individual school ecologies. The papers explore questions of school cultural change, collaboration across organizational cultures, leadership in a multi-sectoral partnership, and assessment of reform initiatives in schools serving significantly marginalized student populations.

Sub Unit

• Division A - Administration / Division A - Section 4: School Contexts

Chair

• Bronwen E. Low, McGill University

Papers

• Framing, Supporting, and Tracking College-for-All Reform: A Local Case of Public Scholarship - Marco A Murillo, Loyola Marymount University; Karen Hunter Quartz, University of California - Los Angeles

• Collaborating for Equity: Comprehensive School Reform in an Innovative University/School Partnership - Joanne C. Larson, University of Rochester

• Building a Tripartite Urban Arts High School Partnership: School, University, and Community - Bronwen E. Low, McGill University; Mindy Roberta Carter, McGill University; Claudia Mitchell, McGill University; Elizabeth Wood, McGill University

• Scaling a Charter Management Organization: Studio 4 and High School for Recording Arts - Michael Lipset, McGill University; Tony Simmons, High School Recording Arts