The Role of the American Research University in Advancing System-Wide Education Reform, Democratic Schooling, and Democracy

by Lee Benson & Ira Harkavy - 2003

Community-higher education-school partnerships should be the core strategy for improving schools and schooling systems from pre-K through college. We base our argument on two propositions: 1) committed, multi-sectoral community partnerships are a prerequisite for sustained school- and system-wide educational reform, and without such partnerships, meaningful educational reform will not happen, and 2) sustained, system-wide educational reform requires transforming the educational system from pre-K through colleges and universities. Therefore, higher educational institutions must be partners in and strategic components of sustained, system-wide educational reform.

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This article originally appeared as NSSE Yearbook Vol. 102, No. 2.

Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 105 Number 11, 2003, p. 94-116 https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 18623, Date Accessed: 11/29/2021 10:35:06 AM Purchase Reprint Rights for this article or review