Over the past 25 years, NNPS has assisted more than 5,000 schools—and several hundred districts, educational organizations, and state departments of education—to plan, implement, and continually improve their partnership programs.” The article shows that Joyce...

Let’s start with vocabulary. Just about every state, district, and school policy asserts that children’s education is a shared responsibility of home, school, and community. When schools are closed, teachers prepare, distribute, and collect students’ lessons on school...

Joyce L. Epstein, Ph.D., Director, NNPS School buildings are closed, but “school” and learning are open. The geography of school has expanded across neighborhoods into students’ homes and onto kitchen tables. The swift change in policy to children learning at home is...

Joyce L. Epstein, Ph.D., NNPS Director The Dual Capacity-Building Framework (DC-BF) is a policy statement from the U. S. Department of Education based on decades of research by many scholars—including NNPS researchers. It tells educators to establish programs of...

NNPS Director and Professor of Education at John Hopkins University, Joyce Epstein, Ph.D., published her article School, family, and community partnerships in teachers’ professional work in the Journal of Education for Teaching. Read the abstract below: This article...