How community colleges can create productive collaborations with local schools
By: James C. Palmer, editor.
Contributors: Palmer, James C.
Series: Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series; New directions for community colleges -- no. 111, Fall 2000.; New directions for community colleges -- no. 111.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass; ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges
Published: 2000
Place of publication: San Francisco; Los Angeles, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Community colleges -- United States; College-school cooperation
Other titles: Collaborations with local schools
Notes: "Fall 2000".

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Building bridges or barriers? Public policies that facilitate or impede linkages between community colleges and local school districts -- Katherine Boswell -- A; title: K-12 perspective on partnerships with community colleges -- Al Azinger; title: Maximizing the benefits of tech-prep initiatives for high school students -- Debra D. Bragg; title: Lessons learned from current state and national dual-credit programs -- Hans A. Andrews; title: Establishing and sustaining a middle college high school -- Cecilia L. Cunningham, Chery S. Wagonlander; title: Working with schools to ease student transition to the community college -- Lemuel W. Watson; title: Working with schools to prepare students for college: a case study -- Charlene R. Nunley, Mary Kay Shartle-Galotto, Mary Helen Smith; title: Working with urban schools that serve predominantly minority students -- May Kuang-chi Chen, James L. Konantz ... [et al.]; title: Anticipating legal problems when working with high school students -- Elizabeth T. Lugg; title: Demographics, state education reform policies, and the enduring community college role as an extension of the schools-- James C. Palmer-- Sources and information /-- Charles L. Outcalt.