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Sheffield, Eric C. – Peter Lang New York, 2011
Community Service Learning (CSL) is, potentially, the most powerful and far-reaching educational reform movement in recent memory. Yet, that potential has yet to be realized. One major reason for CSL's limited success is found in its runaway conceptual confusion: in becoming everything to everyone, CSL has lost its philosophical bearings and, not…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Educational Practices, Educational Change, Community Resources
Souto-Manning, Mariana – Teachers College Press, 2013
This unique book features an array of approaches, strategies, and tools for teaching multiculturally in the early years. The teachers and classrooms portrayed here provide young children with rich educational experiences that empower them to understand themselves in relation to others. You will see how amazing teachers engage in culturally…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Kindergarten
Hutzel, Karen; Bastos, Flavia M. C.; Cozier, Kimberly J. – Teachers College Press, 2012
This anthology places art at the center of meaningful urban education reform. Providing a fresh perspective on urban education, the contributors describe a positive, asset-based community development model designed to tap into the teaching/learning potential already available in urban cities. Rather than focusing on a lack of resources, this…
Descriptors: Community Development, Urban Schools, Art Education, Educational Change
Talan, Teri N.; Bloom, Paula Jorde – Teachers College Press, 2009
The "BAS for Family Child Care" is the first valid and reliable tool for measuring and improving the overall quality of business and professional practices in family child care settings. It is applicable for multiple uses, including program self-improvement, technical assistance and monitoring, training, research and evaluation, and public…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Child Care, Measures (Individuals), Money Management
Adams, Jacob E., Jr., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2010
Education finance has emerged as one of the most pressing public policy issues of the new century. Americans spend more than $500 billion a year on elementary and secondary education, yet neither policy-makers nor practitioners seems to know how to align these resources with student learning goals. In fact, spending increases have outstripped…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Educational Finance, Academic Achievement, Collective Bargaining
Reiss, Alvin H. – 1995
This handbook/guidebook/manual details marketing and fund-raising strategies that might benefit art organizations. Drawing on sources from the arts community, including orchestras, opera, dance and theater companies, galleries, museums, arts councils, performing arts centers, and a zoo, ideas are presented which have proven successful in actual…
Descriptors: Advertising, Arts Centers, Audiences, Community Resources
Reiss, Alvin H. – 1986
This combination handbook, guidebook, and how-to-do-it manual presents useful marketing and fund-raising strategies for those involved in promoting and funding the arts. Case histories of funding programs and promotions are presented along with advice and guidance on: tapping the corporate treasury; unusual direct-mail techniques; and the use of…
Descriptors: Advertising, Arts Centers, Audiences, Community Resources
Booth, Tony, Ed.; Statham, June, Ed. – 1982
The text, designed to accompany an Open University course on the education of handicapped children in the United Kingdom, presents 51 papers illustrating approaches to the integration of handicapped persons in the school and the community. The first section contains biographies covering such topics as children with multiple disabilities, deafness,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Resources, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Sprague, Jeffrey R.; Walker, Hill M. – Guilford Publications, 2004
A hands-on resource for practitioners, this book provides step-by-step guidance for developing a comprehensive school safety plan. Moving from needs assessment to implementation and evaluation, chapters describe research-based strategies that are readily applicable in K-12 settings. Special features include reproducible checklists and other…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Needs Assessment, Community Resources, Bullying
Sims, William D.; Hammond, Sandra B. – 1981
The study reviews 50 foreign language programs in the United States that are said to be both inspirational and useful for providing concrete information about the creation and preservation of successful language programs. The programs cited are exemplary and can serve as models for educators and administrators to study and visit. Program selection…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Community Resources, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Bussard, Ellen – 1979
This book examines community school centers as a phenomenon of national importance to the coordinated delivery of social services, better use of public resources, and revitalization of community life. Chapter I outlines the issues which should be considered in planning community school centers, analyzes alternative strategies and solutions, and…
Descriptors: Administration, Agency Cooperation, Building Design, Community Centers
Remer, Jane – 1996
This anthology looks at arts partnerships which integrate community arts and cultural resources with schools. It also explores the structural, operational, and philosophical adaptations which take place within arts organizations and schools when they become engaged in the process of developing a healthy, responsive relationship. Finally, it…
Descriptors: Art Education, Community Resources, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs
Niba, Johnson N., Ed.; Norman, Regina, Ed. – 1989
Six articles on recruitment and retention of black students are presented that cite dropping out as the factor most responsible for significantly impeding minority access to and successful progress in the collegiate experience. Increasingly, retention is becoming the ultimate yardstick for measuring institutional effectiveness, which translates…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Black Students, Chemistry
American Vocational Association, Arlington, VA. – 1983
This yearbook includes 24 papers dealing with collaboration between the vocational education and private sectors. Presented first are the following papers on the foundation for collaboration: "The Changing Nature of Work and Workers" (Joseph F. Coates), "Jobs with a Future" (Marvin J. Cetron), "The Mission of Vocational…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Apprenticeships, Business, Case Studies