title: The connection: schooling, youth development, and community building-The Futures Academy case.
abstract: Universities, because of their vast human and fiscal resources, can play the central role in assisting in the development of school-centered community development programs that make youth development their top priority. The Futures Academy, a K-8 public school in the Fruit Belt, an inner-city neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, offers a useful model of community development in partnership with the Center for Urban Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The goal of the project is to create opportunities for students to apply the knowledge and skills they learn in the classroom to the goal of working with others to make the neighborhood a better place to live. The efforts seek to realize in practice the Dewey dictum that individuals learn best when they have "a real motive behind and a real outcome ahead."
authors: Center for Urban Studies and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA.
authors: Henry Louis
authors: HL
authors: Taylor
authors: Linda Greenough
authors: LG
authors: McGlynn
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D041923:Adolescent Development; D001741:Black or African American; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004522:Educational Status; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D011203:Poverty; D011287:Prejudice; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012574:Schools / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities / Q000458:organization & administration*