by Dr. Jerry Stein | Jan 19, 2015 | All, Community, Family, Social Change
Everyone has dreams. Every community has rich resources that can help people work to achieve those dreams. Learning Dreams works to build connections between dreamers and community resources. We work to support struggling learners by exploring their dreams, their deep...
by Dr. Jerry Stein | Feb 1, 2014 | All, Family, Foundations
Laurence Steinberg’s book Beyond the Classroom is based on a comprehensive study of high school students. In it he forcefully argues that the home environment and home learning culture of academically successful students is what determines their success. According to...
by Dr. Jerry Stein | Jun 7, 2013 | All, Community, Family, Foundations, Social Change
In Miles to Go, Daniel Patrick Moynihan argues that the poverty reduction methods we developed to reform society in the 20th century worked because although poor, the target communities were essentially “stable, settled populations” with large amounts of social...
by Dr. Jerry Stein | Dec 7, 2012 | All, Family, Foundations
Based upon data from a decade long ethnography, Shirley Heath’s classic essay from 1982 powerfully demonstrates that the way homes and families organize themselves to focus on language socialization is foundational to children’s success with literacy. The sweep of the...
by Dr. Jerry Stein | Sep 7, 2012 | All, Family, Foundations
To understand the community as the primary setting for learning a broadened perspective on education is required. Lawrence Cremin, Pulitzer prize winning historian of education and former President of Teachers College Columbia, provides such a perspective with his...
by Dr. Jerry Stein | Jul 6, 2012 | All, Community, Family, Ideas
To say that family and community are at the heart of learning should dramatically alter our current school-centered approach to educating our children, but the next steps are not obvious. How do we move from this new idea to practical communities that support...
