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Guess Who's Coming to Graduation?
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Miller, Ann – Library Media Connection, 2010
In this article, the author shares her experience in assisting seniors and two teachers at Kalamazoo (Michigan) Central High School when they joined a national contest to have the President of the United States deliver the commencement address to the class of 2010. One of the author's favorite memories surrounds the distribution of commencement…
Descriptors: Graduation, Presidents, High School Seniors, Speeches
Engagement and Institutional Advancement
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Weerts, David; Hudson, Elizabeth – New Directions for Higher Education, 2009
Research suggests that institutional commitment to community engagement can be understood by examining levels of student, faculty, and community involvement in engagement; organizational structure, rewards, and campus publications supporting engagement; and compatibility of an institution's mission with this work (Holland, 1997). Underlying all of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Community Relationship, Institutional Advancement, Resource Allocation
Every Child, Every Classroom, Every Day: School Leaders Who Are Making Equity a Reality
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Peterkin, Robert; Jewell-Sherman, Deborah; Kelley, Laura; Boozer, Leslie – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
This book demonstrates through case studies and expert analyses the impressive educational gains children can make when the best educational research, policy, and practice are aligned. This volume is a valuable resource to aspiring leaders, educational researchers, and current practitioners and a must-read for anyone who cares about the public…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Strategic Planning, Public Schools, Equal Education
Project CDCC. Coloma Community School District, Coloma, Michigan.
Kaplan, Carol B.; Downey, Lee – 1978
This description of career education activities in Coloma, Michigan, was prepared as part of a study conducted to identify evaluated, exemplary career education activities which represent the best of the current career education programs and practices referred to in Public Law 93-380. (See CE 018 212 for the final report of this study.) This…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education, Community Involvement
A PILOT PROJECT IN THREE SCHOOLS IN AREAS WHERE PUPILS HAVE LIMITED BACKGROUNDS 1959-1060.
BROWNELL, SAMUEL M.; AND OTHERS – 1960
THREE PILOT SCHOOLS, TWO ELEMENTARY AND ONE JUNIOR HIGH, ARE DEVELOPING A PROGRAM TO IMPROVE THE TEACHING OF CHILDREN COMING FROM HOMES OF LIMITED BACKGROUND. IN MOST CASES THE FAMILIES ARE RECENT IN-MIGRANTS, WHITE AND NEGRO, OR FAMILIES WHO HAVE FAILED IN ATTEMPTS AT ASSIMILATION INTO A DYNAMIC, INDUSTRIAL, URBAN CULTURE. WITH A MINIMUM OF…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Acculturation, Community Involvement, Community Resources
Spouse Assault: A Community Approach.
Yoder, David R. – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1980
A comprehensive community approach to the problem of spouse assault involves education of a grassroots community organization, legal incorporation, establishing organizational goals and plans, publicity, state coalition of all such community groups, and new legislation. Such an approach led to the establishment of Michigan's Domestic Violence…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Community Involvement, Community Organizations, Community Resources