 Counting on Context: Cross-Sector Collaborations for Education and the Legacy of James Coleman’s Sociological VisionCarolyn Riehl and Melissa A. Lyon The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2017, vol. 674, issue 1, 262-280 Abstract: Many localities across the United States are pursuing efforts to improve outcomes for children and youth through place-based, cross-sector collaborations among education, business, government, philanthropy, and social services agencies. In this article, we examine these place-based initiatives, investigating how they attempt to ameliorate educational inequity and how they might reflect the broader sociological vision of James S. Coleman. We draw from publicly available information on a set of 182 cross-sector collaborations across the United States and from in-depth case studies of collaborations in Buffalo, New York; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Portland/Multnomah County, Oregon. We find evidence that in some ways, cross-sector collaborations contribute to improving schools, offer interventions and resources to support families and communities, and attempt to revitalize localities with strong norms and social ties to support education and equity. However, these outcomes are not yet fully formed, widespread, or guaranteed to last over time. Keywords: educational opportunity; Coleman Report; cross-sector collaboration; collective impact; social capital; socialization (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:anname:v:674:y:2017:i:1:p:262-280 Access Statistics for this article More articles in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |
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