As collaborative efforts have grown, there has been a virtual explosion of "how to" materials to guide local, state, and national stakeholders in partnership program development, implementation, and management.

Most of these tools are directed at a particular stakeholder group (educators, business, and so forth) and/or a specific curriculum area (partnerships to support literacy, mathematics, school-to-work, afterschool programs, and so forth). Some current, useful examples of these tools include:

• A Guidebook to Implementing the Corporate Imperative: Business and Results of Business Involvement in Education (U.S. Department of Education, 1999), which guides employers to ready their organizations internally for educational partnership involvement.
• A Compact for Learning: An Action Handbook for Family-School-Community Partnerships (U.S. Department of Education, December 1997), which outlines how parents, school staff, and students share the responsibility for improved student achievement and the means by which school and parents can build and develop a partnership to help children achieve high standards.
• Compact for Reading Guide and School-Home Links Reading Kit (U.S. Department of Education, March 1999) to encourage greater family, school, and community involvement in children?s education to improve their skills and achievement in reading and the language arts.
• A Business Guide to Support Employee and Family Involvement in Education (Conference Board, 1997) to provide business leaders and their education and community partners with information and guidance about policies and practices that promote employee and family involvement in education, address workforce and student needs, and support education initiatives within their communities.
• Using Technology to Strengthen Employee and Family Involvement in Education (Conference Board and U.S. Department of Education, 1998), which demonstrates how businesses can use technology to foster, guide, and strengthen employee and family involvement in education within both their companies and their communities.