Supporting Reform: The Role of the School District Board

Charles Terrett

Charles Terrett, superintendent of Fulton County Schools in Hickman, Kentucky, discusses the benefits of collaboration to serve families by the school and social service agencies. Excerpted from NCREL's videoseries, Schools That Work: The Research Advantage, videoconference 8, Integrating Community Services (NCREL, 1992).

"In today's technical environment, there are also new and additional basic skills that students should learn. These new skills include accessing information, manipulating that information and finally applying that information to solve problems. We want our students not only to solve problems, but we want our students to learn how to solve real world problems, these are our new learning goals."

This Critical Issue summary was researched and written by Allan R. Odden, codirector of the Finance Center, Consortium for Policy Research in Education, and professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Date posted: 1995