The mission of the Center for Partnerships to Improve Education is to improve students’ level of education achievement by creating effective partnerships among the College of Charleston, school districts, businesses, families, and the greater community. Located at the College of Charleston’s School of Education, Health, and Human Performance, it was established in 2005 to address improvement of K-12 education in South Carolina. The Center for Partnerships to Improve Education is a non-profit educational organization charged with addressing and resolving through collaborative effort, the conflicts that confront underachieving school communities.
Download Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3 of the Partnerships in Education magazine.
Building Community Through Partnerships
Partnership models that work to improve student achievement tailor their approach based on the factors affecting their school communities. Ultimately their goals are the same: to change the way schools of education, the schools under their care, and the greater community interact with one another.
The following links provide information on successful partnership initiatives, their history, strategies, their effect on the community-at-large and, in particular, the schools whose successful academic outcomes they are charged with making a reality. These are two examples of several such models in action.
University of Pennsylvania: http://www.phila.k12.pa.us/schools/pennalexander/aboutus.htm
Closing the Achievement Gap: Partnerships for Successful Schools - PowerPoint presentation (requires the free PowerPoint Viewer to view)
Johns Hopkins University: http://www.jhu.edu/
