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Conclusion

Creating Community Learning Centers gets us "back to basics," back to active community involvement in raising and educating all of our children. The positive impact on children of re-establishing the ties among home, school, and community has been widely recognized. As the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching points out, collaboration between home and school is essential both to family functioning and to school success. Drugs, violence, lack of supervision--these are the realities of many children today. A Community Learning Center housed in the neighborhood school can be a safe after-school and summer haven for children, a place of caring and friendship in a building removed from the violence and drugs that permeate some communities in America.
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