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This collection of readings below provide background on key areas of interest to the Smart Schools Initiative. They reflect only a part of the literature emerging around these issues. 

Coalition Building

All Together Now: Sharing Responsibility for the Whole Child Martin Blank and Amy Berg, Coalition for Community Schools, published by the Association for Supervisions and Curriculum Development, 2006.

Building A Strong Community Partnership District Administration, 2006.

Excerpt from The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class are Undermining the American Dream, Sheryll Cashin, New York: Public Affairs, 2004, pages 313-317.

Building Assets and Forging Partnerships to Create Communities of Choice, Richard Baron, Housing Facts & Findings, Volume 5 Issue 4, 2003.

Labor Leaders as Smart Growth Advocates, Good Jobs First, August 2003.

Education and Community Building: Connecting Two Worlds, Institute for Educational Leadership, 2001.

Community Schools

Historic Neighborhood Schools Success Stories National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2007.

Renovate or Replace: The case for restoring and resusing older school buidlings Pa. Department of Education and Pa. Schools Boards Association, 2007.

Schools for Successful Communities: An Element of Smart Growth, Council for Educational Facilities Planners International/US EPA, October 2004.

Community Schools: Is This Their Time?, Neal Peirce, National Academy of Public Administration , May 25, 2003.

Schools as Centers of Community: A Citizen's Guide for Planning and Design, Steven Bingler, Linda Quinn, Kevin Sullivan, National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities, October 2003.

Making the Difference: Research and Practice in Community Schools, Coalition for Community Schools, 2003.

Equity/Adequacy

School Money Trials Brookings Institution, 2007

Milwaukee Organizer Hopes for School Funding Victory, Lynora Williams, Connectivity: People and Places, National Neighborhood Coalition, Winter 2005.

Quality Counts 2005: No Small Change, Targeting Money Toward Student Performance,
Education Week, January 2005.

The Katrina Experiment, Julie Kosterlitz, The National Journal, November 2005.

Insufficient Funds, Dennis Farney, Governing Magazine, December 2004.

Introduction to Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap, Richard Rothstein, Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, 2004.

Neighborhood Revitalization/Economic Development

Reconnecting Schools and Neighborhoods: An Introduction to School-
Centered Community Revitalization Enterprise Foundation, 2007.

Creating Communities of Learning: Schools and Smart Growth, Ellen Shoshkes, April 2004.

At Home in Battle Creek, Jim McHale, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek Chamber of Commerce Eye Opener Presentation, February 11, 2003, especially pages 3-5.

Smart Growth/Facilities Location

Planning for School Facilities: School Board Decision Making and Local Coordination in Michigan Richard K. Norton, University of Michigan. Published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2007.

Barriers to Children Walking to and from School, S Martin and S Carlson, Journal of the American Medical Association, November, 2005.

Walking to School: The Case for Renovating and Maintaining School Buildings in Established Neighborhoods, Thomas Hylton, Central PA Magazine, November 2004.

Edge-ucation: What compels communities to build schools in the middle of nowhere?, Rob Gurwitt, Governing, March 2004.

Designing Healthy Communities, Schools: The Heart of a Healthy Community, Regional Plan Association, 2003.

Education and Smart Growth: Reversing School Sprawl for Better Schools and Communities, Sam Passamore, Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, March 2002.