Publications and Products

Debunking the Middle-Class Myth:
Why Diverse Schools are Good for All Kids

By Eileen Gale Kugler

$29.95
Published in 2002 by the Scarecrow Press, Inc.
162 Pages, Paperback

Educational Restructuring and the Community Education Process

By Larry E. Decker and Valerie A. Romney

Lifelong learning, school-business partnerships, parent and community involvement, and interagency cooperation all play a role in the community education process. This book shows how these components can be applied to reform activities at the state and local levels. It offers a systematic approach to restructuring schools, enabling them to be facilitating, coordinating centers that can build communities in which learning will flourish.

Published 1992, 144-page paperback, 6" x 9"
Single copy: $9.95

Flexibility in Federal Education Programs:
A Guide Book for Community Innovation

From the Center on Education Policy and Policy Exchange Institute for Educational Leadership.

This pamphlet covers all aspects of requesting and obtaining waivers from federal education requirements.  Also, it discusses programs that promote both education reform and innovation.  Finally it addresses the new federal programs assisting education reform. 

$9.95
1997
50-page pamphlet

Grantseeking: How to Find a Funder and Write a Winning Proposal

By Larry E. Decker and Virginia A. Decker

Here, in plain English, is a detailed road map of the sequential activities followed by successful grantseekers. The entire grantseeking process — from generating a good idea through identifying the right funder, writing a winning proposal, and administering the grant — is laid out in detail, with models and examples. Both novice and experienced grantseekers find this volume invaluable.

Published 1993, 96-page paperback, 6" x 9"
Single copy: $14.95

The Grantwriter's Internet Companion:
A Resource for Educators and Others Seeking Grants and Funding

By Susan Peterson

Successful grantwriter Susan Peterson offers the first book especially for educators on using the Internet to find funding and grants.

This one-stop resource helps busy instructors discover the financial support they need, from grants for special classroom projects to funding for schoolwide programs.  It’s an easy starting point for surfing the Web for grants – including some that can only be found on the Internet! You’ll find:

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Save time and money by exploring the world of grantwriting on the Internet…and begin with a user-friendly format that is perfect for both the novice and the experience grantwriter.

$50.95
Published in 2001 by Corwin Press, Inc.
122 Pages, Paperback

The "Hard-to-Reach" Parent: Old Challenges, New Insights

By Renee White-Clark and Larry Decker

The popular stereotype of "at risk" families is that the adults are unemployed and the family is on welfare. The truth is that two-thirds of the people on welfare are working: 38 percent of poor families receive no public cash assistance at all. Some poor parents do experience unspeakable hardships, but the faith and determination of many have enabled them to overcome enormous obstacles to achievement. This monograph provides a realistic view of the "hard-to-reach" and gives insights for getting parents involved in the education of their children.

Published 1996, 56-page paperback, 6" x 9" Single copy: $11.95
2–9 copies: $9.95
10 or more: $7.95

Home, School, and Community Partnerships

By Larry E. and Virginia A. Decker

Many Americans worry about what they see as a growing gulf between the American public and its public schools. Troubling trends seem to indicate a fraying relationship among families, schools and communities. Though there is agreement that change needs to occur, there is no agreement on the best way to make that change.

This book will help educators weave some of the best ideas for creating and sustaining family and community engagement into a comprehensive home-school-community partnership program tailored to their own communities.

For educational leaders, teachers, and family and community advocated interested in creating and maintaining home-school-community partnerships and collaborative initiatives.

Published 2002
Single copy: $28.95

Rebuilding the Partnership for Public Education

By Larry Kilbourne, Larry E. Decker and Valerie A. Romney

A series of societal crises has weakened our schools and raised troubling questions about their ability to address the challenges that face our society. This publication deals frankly with failures in the traditional family-community-school partnership. The authors describe in detail new practices and programs that are being used in school districts across the country to rebuild the partnership for public education.

Published 1994, 112-page hardback, 6" x 9"
Single copy: $14.95
2–9 copies: $12.95
10 or more: $9.95

Reforming Public Schools through Community Education

By Jack D. Minzey and Clyde E. LeTarte

Authors Jack Minzey and Clyde LeTarte offer an up-to-date analysis of the status of education today, with a prescription for hope and a method for action through community education. Minzey and LeTarte clearly explain community education in practice and philosophy and show how community education is the framework for creating learning communities called for in virtually every reform effort.

Published 1994, 320-page hardback, 6" x 9"
Single copy: $24.95  (only 18 copies left in stock)

School Community Centers: Guidelines for Interagency Planners

By Joseph Ringers, Jr. and Larry E. Decker

This publication brings together ideas, techniques, and designs that have been proven successful by planners of school community centers nationwide. It serves as a step-by-step guide for creating a school community center that will meet the needs of a particular community and help make it a more vibrant, healthy, and desirable place to live.

Published 1995, 96-page paperback, 6" x 9"
Single copy: $14.95
2–9 copies: $12.95
10 or more: $9.95

The Sovereign:
New Perspectives on People, Power, and Public Education

By Vasil M. Kerensky

America has no well-defined strategy for public education.  Our test scores are dismal, our teachers discouraged, our business and political leaders worried about the future.  The only solutions suggested by the education establishment involve more control; state-approved teachers, state-mandated curriculum, state-selected tests.  No one is really hopeful about the outcome of these centralized efforts.

The idea of an educating community – a community that values and supports lifelong learning for everyone – is called community education.  The community education concept is opposed by those whose main professional goal is to protect their own job security and their own turf, Kerensky says.  But education is not synonymous with schooling, he argues.  Productive learning occurs not just in state-regulated schools but in the rich voluntary life of the community.  And effective educators know how to tap those vast community resources to reach every learner, from the youngest infant to the most senior citizen. 

The stakes – for ourselves, our children and our country – are enormous, Kerensky believes.  Free citizens of a democratic nation must reclaim their communities’ schools now.

$16.95
Published in 1989 by National Community Education Association
119 Pages, Paperback

Tools for Schools: Contracting for School-Age Child Care

Developed by Project Safe Home

Tools for Schools offers practical, step-by-step suggestions on:

• Soliciting proposals for before- and after-school care;
• Choosing a provider;
• Structuring a contract;
• Monitoring the program; and
• Assuring ongoing quality improvement.

$18.50
Published 1993, 3-ring binder

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