Partnerships

Participants in a school-college partnership in South Carolina learned early on that even collaborations that sound like win-win situations can benefit from serious self-evaluation.

Columbia College in Columbia, S.C., teamed up with two local schools and several public service agencies in 1993 to form the Schools as the Center of the Community Project.

The partnership put social workers, nurses, and mental health counselors at the two schools, taking some of the burden off teachers and letting them do what they do best--teach. At the same time, education majors at the college got a chance to...