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NEA policy brief examining research showing need for community involvement in education

Dr. Valenzuela's blog

Dr. Valenzuela's blog

In an effort to improve student achievement and to help to close the achievement gap, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the National Education Association (NEA) partnered through their Parent Engagement initiatives to increase the inclusion and engagement of parents of color in their children's education.

"Public health researchers have advocated CBPR as a means to bring evidence-based public health policies and programs to communities and to enable researchers to conduct community-informed research. Despite these goals, no studies have evaluated whether linkages among agencies involved in the CBPR process have changed as a result of interventions. In our study, we measured network linkages across 14 topics to determine whether linkages among and between CBOs and universities have changed as a result of project activities."

Trusted source in early childhood (Zero to Three), useful checklists and terminology for identifying and refining evaluation project.

This document outlines the understanding of reentry that is shared by the Virginia Department of Corrections, the Virginia Department of Social Services, and the Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services.

Since 2007, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Policy Research Center (PRC) has partnered with the Universities of New Mexico and Washington to study the science of community-based participatory research (CBPR). Our goal is to identify facilitators and barriers to effective community-academic partnerships in American Indian and other communities, which face health disparities.