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Direct linkFerman, Barbara, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2017
In "The Fight for America's Schools", Barbara Ferman brings together a diverse group of contributors to investigate how parents, communities, teachers, unions, and students are mobilizing to oppose market-based reforms in education. Drawing on a series of rich case studies, the book illustrates how disparate groups can forge new…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Resistance to Change, Commercialization, Neoliberalism
Lansiquot, Reneta D. – IGI Global, 2013
Involving two or more academic subjects, interdisciplinary studies aim to blend together broad perspectives, knowledge, skills, and epistemology in an educational setting. By focusing on topics or questions too broad for a single discipline to cover, these studies strive to draw connections between seemingly different fields. Cases on…
Descriptors: Enrichment, Organizational Change, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
Download full textPartnership for Family Involvement in Education, Washington, DC. – 1997
In 1994, the U.S. Congress added parental involvement to the National Education Goals. Goal 8 states that by the years 2000, every school will promote partnerships that will increase parental involvement and participation in promoting the social, emotional, and academic growth of children. The fourth in a series that seeks to inform educators and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Financial Support, Parent Participation
Jackson, Shirley A., Ed. – 1993
Comprehensive school health education is a primary prevention strategy for teaching the nation's children and their parents the skills needed for a healthy lifestyle. This publication provides information about the U.S. Department of Education's Comprehensive School Health Education Program (CSHEP) and presents four papers commissioned for the…
Descriptors: Criteria, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
Sandoval, Monica; And Others – 1986
Descriptions of four Title VII Academic Excellence projects focus on their efforts to promote limited-English-proficient (LEP) parents' involvement in schools and literacy. "Parents as Tutors" (Monica Sandoval) outlines the structure of the Brownsville (Texas) Independent School District's program to involve parents of children in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
Smith, Sheila, Ed. – 1995
This volume examines two-generation interventions as models that represent a new approach to assisting families in poverty. Five of the chapters examine current programs--their design, characteristics of participants, implementation issues, and in one case, evaluation outcomes. Other chapters offer a research and policy context for this…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Life, Family Literacy
Thomas, Carol H., Ed.; Thomas, James L., Ed. – 1982
Intended as a resource guide for individuals involved with educational programming for the bilingual special child, the book's two parts include seven articles and essays by experienced professionals and a list of 343 sources of information and assistance. The book commences with a fact sheet on bilingual education for exceptional children. Part I…
Descriptors: Agencies, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Curriculum Development
Jennings, John F., Ed. – 1994
This book contains 11 essays that follow the community service and student loan legislation as it proceeded through Congress. The essays illuminate the policymaking process by explaining the evolution of new national policies and by tracing the history of these two pieces of legislation. The book is organized in three parts. The first two parts…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, College Students, Community Action, Educational Finance
