Webinar: Positive Student Outcomes in Community Schools

Using a community schools strategy of combining student support services—such as family engagement programs and health services—with strong academics seems like an intuitive approach to raising student achievement in high-poverty schools. Little is known, however, about the optimal combination of support services needed to raise achievement or about the students who benefit most from a community schools strategy.

Join the Center for American Progress for a live streamed conversation on February 22, 2012 at 9:30 EST to discuss new research on leveraging specific student support services to improve achievement. We will launch the conversation with a paper by researchers at Stanford University’s John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities that analyzes how students and families utilize support services at community schools in one California school district and how those services impact student outcomes. We will continue the discussion with a panel of distinguished community school experts.