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This edition of UPDATE focuses on partnerships, beginning with an interview with Dr. Gene Bottoms, founder of High Schools That Work (HSTW). Dr. Bottoms provides important insights into the ways partnerships were used to create HSTW, as well as the ways they are necessary to involving high schools and community colleges in the implementation of Programs of Study. This volume also includes two invited articles, one by Dr. Pamela Eddy, College of William and Mary University, and Dr. Marilyn Amey, Michigan State University, that give OCCRL readers a glimpse into their new book on partnerships and collaboration, and a second by Dr. Louise Yarnell, who shares a model that she and her colleagues at SRI are developing for the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

By Rick Mullin on Chemical & Engineering News, June 13, 2011. Pfizer announced the third in its network of research partnerships with medical and academic institutions in and around Boston. The new partnership will join other hubs in Pfizer's Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) which launched last year. "Pfizer's partnership network is growing as the company cuts billions of dollars from its traditional research base"

by Nick Anderson, Washington Post, September 2 2010. As part of the Race to the Top, grants were made to the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers ($170 million) and the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium ($160 million). The Partnership "would potentially replace a single, high-stakes test with a series of assessments to be averaged into one score for accountability purposes." SMARTER "would assess students through computer-adaptive technology..." Both assessments hope to do away with the existing "bubble tests" and hope to roll out in the 2014-15 school year.

By Elisabeth A. Barnett & Katherine L. Hughes and published by the Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, October 2010. This Issue Brief was presented as part of President Obama's White House Summit on Community College (October 2010) and looks at partnerships that might improve college enrollment, college readiness at enrollment, and persistence in college.

Organization "brings together game design, rigorous research practices and strong interdisciplinary partnerships to create, study and promote game-based materials, strategies and systems as critical tools for personal and social development."

Pfizer's Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (Translating Leading Science into Clinical Candidates Through Networked Collaboration) is dedicated to the establishment of global partnerships between Academic Medical Centers and Pfizer to transform research and development through a focus on translational medicine.

June 28 blog by Beth on social media measures. I like the emphasis on relationship building with the organization because a social learning communityis all about building respectful, caring, responsive partnerships on practice shared with others.