What Are Community Schools?
The community schools strategy transforms a school into a place where educators, local community members, families, and students work together to strengthen conditions for student learning and healthy development. As partners, they organize in- and out-of-school resources, supports, and opportunities so that young people thrive.
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What is the Couper-Owens Center for Community Schools?
The Binghamton University Couper-Owens Center for Community Schools advances research, evaluation, education, technical assistance and implementation of the University Assisted Community Schools (UACS) locally, nationally and globally. UACS is a community schools model in which institutions of higher education (IHEs) serve as primary partners. These partnerships enhance community well-being while advancing research, teaching and learning from pre-kindergarten to higher education (PK-20+), and where the IHE's curriculum focuses on helping to solve local community-identified problems. Over the last decade, community schools and UACS, in particular, have grown exponentially, and Binghamton University has established itself as a national leader in this field.
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