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English
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The Brigham Young University/Public School Partnership, 1978-1988
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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Ed.D.
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This dissertation examines the formative years of the Brigham Young University/Public School Partnership (BYUPSP): 1978-1988. It concentrates on the foundation of the BYUPSP in light of John Goodlad's description of true partnerships and the positive collaboration fostered by the College of Education at Brigham Young University, and five Utah public school districts: Alpine, Jordan, Nebo, Provo, and Wasatch. The study illuminates three particularly successful partnership entities: (1) The Elementary School Partnership, under the Department of Elementary Education, (2) the Leaders Preparation Program (LPP), designed and administered by the Department of Educational Leadership, and (3) the Gifted and Talented Education Program, shared by the Departments of Educational Leadership and Educational Psychology. Each of these were carried by dedicated professors who worked directly at the public school sites, engaging teachers and administrators in a symbiotic renewal facilitated by shared language. Started during the deanship of Curtis Van Alfen, and encouraged by such educational scholars as John Goodlad and Roger Soder, the BYUPSP--including the formative period--is in its seventeenth year. This study is important because "learning communities," or "educational partnerships," represent a new direction for American education. This study of the formative years of the BYUPSP tells the story of how it began and relates the richness of its legacy. The study should aid--by example--other school partnerships seeking to understand their own directions and help those seeking to begin university-school partnerships. The potential for transforming government-based education--and non-government schools as well--is seen by Goodlad and the Department of Educational Leadership at BYU to be possible through a symbiotic change of the partnership entities themselves. Thus, the BYUPSP and the National Network for Educational Renewal have become vehicles for educational renewal by breaking the bonds of tradition. The BYUPSP is one of several currently active university-school partnerships. Because of its location and shared core values among its constituents, the BYUPSP may represent the best example of what Goodlad is trying to achieve.