Meeting the needs of all students requires weaving together the resources of school and community into a comprehensive, multifaceted continuum of interventions. Schools can play a special role in developing essential school-community connections. This paper discusses concepts and mechanisms schools can adopt as a framework to guide their efforts and highlights special opportunities and challenges of developing such connections in rural areas.
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