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Elliott, Mary Ann – 1989
This report describes functions of the University of Maryland (UM) program, Office of Public Service which focuses on developing a special liaison relationship with the private sector in support of the State's expanding initiative in economic development. The Office provides a single point of access for University resources and services in what is…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Higher Education, Models, Program Descriptions
Pires, Laura J. – 1989
This report summarizes the New York State Community Schools Pilot Project. All 14 elementary Pilot Schools have advisory and/or steering committees, a full-time coordinator, and strategies for ongoing needs assessment in place. All schools also have successful extended-day programs, but response to weekend programs has been mixed, and only seven…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Schools, Cooperative Programs, Elementary Education
California State Univ. and Colleges, Long Beach. Office of the Chancellor. – 1989
This publication describes programs in the California State University (CSU) system that support public school improvements in five areas: public school diversity, curriculum improvement, teacher diversification, teacher education, and leadership. An introduction notes the pressing urgency of school improvement and describes the need for business…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College School Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1991
This report reviews the origins of the Human Corps concept, discusses the Human Corps activities of the University of California and the California State University over the past year (1991), and offers two recommendations concerning future reporting requirements related to this program. The recommendations are: (1) the University of California…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Services, Extracurricular Activities, Higher Education
Western Center for Drug-Free Schools and Communities. – 1991
This document describes 18 drug use prevention progams in metropolitan urban school districts in the following seven western states: (1) California; (2) Hawaii; (3) Idaho; (4) Montana; (5) Nevada; (6) Oregon; and (7) Washington. Each description outlines the level of commitment of each urban district, abilities within each program to collaborate…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, Elementary Secondary Education
Beswick, Richard – OSSC Bulletin, 1992
Although there has been reluctance to support direct methods of teaching moral values and character traits, due in part to lack of consensus about whose values should be taught, a national call to rethink that trend has begun to be heard. An up-to-date account is provided of the recommendations of the Oregon State Board of Education to mandate…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction, Ethics
Tasmanian Education Dept., Hobart (Australia). – 1988
In 1983 the Australian Commonwealth Government announced its new Participation and Equity Program (PEP). To allow schools to focus on new directions, substantial amounts of money were allocated to the states through the PEP so that they could develop programs that focus on nine major areas: (1) curriculum; (2) assessment, accreditation, and…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Warfield, Deborah – 1985
Because of its Reach-Out Program, Florida Keys Community College (FKCC) has been successful in recruiting black high school students to achieve its highest proportion of racial parity in first-time-in-college enrollments (i.e., 5.2%). Through its Eighth Grade Visitation Program, High School Recruitment Program, and other components, the Reach-Out…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Students, Community Colleges, Educationally Disadvantaged
Johnson, William A., Jr.; And Others – 1987
The goals of the Rochester (New York) Education Initiative are to inform the total community of the crisis of low academic achievement within the public school system, and to involve the total community in a set of strategies to correct the problem. Activities included the following: (1) meetings to solicit the support of key community leaders and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Community Programs, Comprehensive Programs
National School Boards Association, Alexandria, VA. – 1991
This directory describes collaborative programs linking local school boards with other agencies in order to serve the full range of student needs that are essential to improved educational achievement. Reflecting a growing recognition by local school board members that schools alone cannot meet the complex educational and life management needs of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agency Cooperation, Boards of Education, Child Rearing
Clark, Terry A. – 1987
This paper discusses the potential of school district-based and community-wide approaches to dropout prevention, and provides a summary of the goals and expected outcomes of the Consortium on Dropout Prevention, and the Urban Dropout Prevention Collaboratives Program. The Consortium on Dropout Prevention was formed to cooperatively gather and…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Bhaerman, Robert; And Others – 1995
This report illustrates how community service learning can be used as a vehicle for achieving the goals of education and youth development and, concurrently, how it is highly consistent with the goals of systemic educational reform, particularly in rural schools and communities. Part 1 covers the definition of service learning as a method of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits, Educational Change
Jonas, Edward D., Jr. – 1987
The Atlanta (Georgia) Public School System (APS) has many existing dropout prevention programs, but they have been operating primarily independently, with limited information sharing or coordination. In 1986 these programs were linked through the formation of the Atlanta Dropout Prevention Collaborative, which unites the public school system with…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Ancillary School Services, Dropout Programs, Dropout Research
Hill, Paul T.; And Others – 1989
This report identifies the strategies that multiproblem urban school districts have used to make major improvements in recent years. A panel of experts familiar with urban school systems nominated over 30 candidate urban districts for study. The following districts were chosen for analysis: (1) Atlanta (Georgia); (2) Cincinnati (Ohio); (3) Memphis…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board of Education Role, Business Responsibility, Change Strategies
Owens, Tom; And Others – 1987
This document reviews programs and policy initiatives in the following Northwestern States aimed at reducing the number of youth who are at risk of dropping out of school or remaining unemployed: (1) Alaska; (2) Hawaii; (3) Idaho; (4) Montana; (5) Oregon; and (6) Washington. The following regional trends are identified: (1) establishing…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, College School Cooperation, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
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