Community Organizing Essential to Long-Term Education Reform, Report Finds

Community/Neighborhood Organizing is what will keep this little fellow - to the left - and many who look like him in-the-classroom and successful, rather than school-to-prison, OR worse,

Providence, Rhode Island, Brown University, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, has a NEW report on "community organizing", The Strengths & Challenges of Community Organizing as an Education Reform Strategy (35 pages, PDF).

I feel the information is worth reading.
Visit the article by PND - Philanthrophy News Digest, January 28, 2011, and view my comments. I think Warren Simmons, Executive Director and his team have the right idea.

For my comments go to:
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=324300004

For the report, go to:
http://www.nmefdn.org/uploads/AISRCommunityOrganizingReport2011.pdf