Child Care Collaboration:
An Internet Resource Pathfinder

REPORTS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS

A selection of direct links to reports, guidebooks and other on-line publications on child care partnerships and collaboration.

A Compact for Learning: An Action Handbook for Family-School-Community Partnerships. December 1997
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Compact/
     A U.S. Department of Education publication which provides guidelines for developing Compacts among schools, families and communities. Part of the Partnership for Family Involvement in Education.

Early Childhood Reform in Seven Communities: Front-Line Practice, Agency Management, and Public Policy. October 1996--Studies of Education Reform
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/SER/EarlyChild/
     A U.S. Department of Education report aimed at early childhood practitioners, managers, and policymakers, which includes profiles of several Head Start programs and stresses the need for early childhood programs to collaborate with parents, public schools and community agencies.

Head Start and the Cooperative Extension System
by Charles A. Smith, Interim National Program Leader, Human Development Extension Service-USDA
http://www.nncc.org/EO/Head.Start.Extension.html
     Aimed primarily at county, state and federal Extension System educators, this brief report presents an overview of Head Start, discusses how effective partnerships between the Extension System and Head Start might be forged, and suggests how each can benefit from these collaborations.

Strong Families, Strong Schools: Building Community Partnerships for Learning
http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/families/strong/
Based on Strong Families, Strong Schools by Jennifer Ballen and Oliver Moles for the National Family Initiative, U.S. Department of Education.
     This on-line publication has a chapter on School-Family Partnerships with a special section on Early Childhood Education.