Home-School-Community Partnership

 
  View the APA Report Section on Home-School-Community Partnership
 

  Related Articles on the Web

Asian American Children:  What Teachers Should Know
    ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education
 
Beyond Culture: Communicating With Asian American Children and Families
    ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education
 

Related Organization Web Pages

Asian American Resources
An impressive collection of internet links to Asian American Clubs/Organizations, Asian American media, and much more.

Asian American Communities for Education (AACE)
A Coalition of Asian American Community Based Organizations in San Francisco who have received a federal grant for programs designed to identify, select and assist low income youth ages 11 and older who have the potential to be the first generation in their family to enroll and complete post-secondary educational programs.
 
Chinese Historical and Cultural Project
The Chinese Historical and Cultural Project (CHCP) is based in Santa Clara County, California. It was founded in 1987 as a non-profit organization to promote and preserve Chinese American and Chinese history and culture through community outreach activities.
 
Coalition for Asian-American Children & Families (CAC&F)
This well designed and informative web site targets social service providers of Asian-American children and families.  Resources include a directory of service providers by ethnic group, facts which challenge the "model minority" myth, and links to other sites.  This site also offers the "Asian Kids InfoLink," which they describe as "Cyberspace's only interactive forum for Asian children's policy and cultural diversity issues."
Japanese American Network
The Japanese American Network (JA*Net) is a partnership of Japanese American organizations based in Los Angeles. A goal of this partnership is to encourage the use of the Internet and interactive communications technologies to exchange information about Japanese Americans -- art, culture, community, history, news, events, social services, and public policy issues.

Korean Cultural Center
Information about this Los Angeles Based Center's programs. Includes many on-line resources, including virtual tours of its collections.
 
National Coalition of Advocates for Students (NCAS)
NCAS is a national education advocacy organization with 21 member groups in 14 states that works to achieve equal access to a quality public education for the most vulnerable students -- those who are poor, children of color, recently immigrated, or children with disabilities.  Focusing on kindergarten through grade 12, NCAS informs and mobilizes parents, concerned educators, and communities to help resolve critical education issues.  Utilizing national projects and studies, public hearings, and outreach through publications and the media, NCAS raises concerns that otherwise might not be heard.

National Asian Family School Partnership Project (NAFSPP)
This project seeks to:  Empower Asian immigrant parents by providing training, consultation, information and on-going support to improve their understand of how U.S. public schools are organized and how parents may effectively support the school success oft their children; and expand the capacity of Asian immigrant constituency CBOs and the parents they represent to advocate effectively for improved educational services for Asian students, resolve school problems, support selected public schools which serve substantial numbers of Asian immigrant students in their efforts to better serve those children, and engage Asian parents effectively in the life of the school.
 
Organization of Chinese Americans
A national organization with over 41 chapters. Their website offers a wealth of information about the organization and its activities, as well as links to publications and links across the internet.
 
Partnership for Family Involvement in Education (PFIE)
The Partnership was started in September 1994 by the Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley, in an effort to join together employers, educators, families, religious groups, and community organizations to improve schools and raise student achievement. Thousands of organizations are currently members of the Partnership, representing every state in the country.
 
San Diego's Chinese Community
This website offers a wonderful collection of articles, forums, recipes, art & culture, and much more.

San Francisco Chinese Cultural Center
Information on the Center and its programs.

Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SERAC)
A national nonprofit organization serving as a voice and a resource for the Southeast Asian American Community in the U.S.  SEARAC's mission for the 1990s is to promote community empowerment and leadership development in the United States. SEARAC exists to be an advocate — the key representative - for the diverse Southeast Asian American community. As a national-level umbrella organization, we serve in specific roles: coalition builder and leader, facilitator, mediator, representative and coordinator. SEARAC is uniquely qualified to strengthen the institutional capacity of ethnic networks, Mutual Assistance Associations and other Community-Based Organizations.

 

Book Recommendations

Achieving the Dream:  How Communities and Schools Can Improve Education for Immigrant Students. (1993)  National Coalition of Advocates for Students.
This manual is designed to help community organizations, concerned educators, and parents as they work to improve local public schools on behalf of immigrant students.  Each chapter focuses on central elements of quality schooling from the perspective of the young immigrant.  (To order, contact NCAS at ncasmfe@aol.com or 617-357-8507)

 
An Invisible Crisis:  The Educational Needs of Asian Pacific American Youth. (1997).  Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy
The authors of this report found that most schools are ill-equiped to cope with the language neds of children who speak an Asian language at home and with racial, cultural, and socioeconomic diversity in the classroom.  This report explores the changing contexts and obstacles to effective education for APA children.  (To order, contact AAPIP at aapip@aol.com or 212-260-3999)

 
Unfamiliar Partners:  Asian Parents and U.S. Public Schools. (1997) A Report from the National Coalition of Advocates for Students.
The First national project focusing on Asian students and families in the U.S.  This report providews new insights into the cultures of Asian American and immigrant families and the struggles they face daily.  Profiles of these authentic experiences are provided along with case studies from six cities, and how these communities dealt with partnership building struggles with the local schools.  (To order, contact NCAS at ncasmfe@aol.com  or 617-357-8507)
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