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Abstract
The context for this study is the increased focus on school-community partnerships in the United States. With limited research having been conducted on high-achieving schools, this is a case study of one of America’s top 100 high schools, a Jewish day school; this article reports on its school-synagogue partnership. Like most research on school-community partnerships, this study is based on the theories of capital reproduction. Yet, it is aligned with those claiming religious institutions as producers of capital, finding that these partnerships are effective at harnessing capital when explicitly designed for school members to experience the partnering institution’s religious life.
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1 A study was conducted that listed the 100 high schools in the United States with the highest percentage of graduating seniors to be accepted into Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. These universities, by being among the country’s most selective and exclusive, collectively endow a high school with a “HYP rating.”
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Tracy Kaplowitz
Tracy Kaplowitz, a Rabbi ordained at The Jewish Theological Seminary and holding a Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from Hebrew University, is the Director of Strategic Initiatives and Admissions at the Schechter School of Long Island.