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Austin, Dean A., Ed.; And Others – Journal of Physical Education and Recreation, 1981
Physical educators must foster community involvement as an ongoing process and be committed to providing physical education to all students. Ways to involve communities and to strengthen community support for physical education programs are discussed. (CJ)
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Community Involvement, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development
IDRA Newsletter, 1996
This newsletter includes six articles that examine key issues facing public schools and communities related to accountability, bilingual education, immigrant education, school finance, and school choice. In addressing these issues, articles focus on the importance of community involvement and input in local school reform efforts aimed at achieving…
Descriptors: Accountability, Activism, Bilingual Education, Citizen Participation
Bates, Percy; And Others – Equity Coalition for Race, Gender, and National Origin, 1996
Although society is more aware of sexual harassment than it was in the past, the problem is not disappearing. Many school children are afraid to talk about it for fear of reprisal and humiliation. The articles in this issue focus on harassment and the schools in the following papers: (1) "Harassment Revisited" (Percy Bates); (2) "Sexual…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Ethnicity
Waldie, Jerome R. – Report from the White House Conference on Aging, 1981
This document contains 13 reports from the 1981 White House Conference on Aging. The first report describes the community forums held around the country to collect citizen input on issues important to the elderly. An overview of the 1981 White House Conference on Aging scheduled for November 1981 is provided, biographical sketches of conference…
Descriptors: Administrators, Aging (Individuals), Citizen Participation, Community Involvement
Liontos, Lynn Balster – OSSC Bulletin, 1992
In this theme issue of The "OSSC Bulletin" educators speak out about what they think their schools are doing right. The project goal was to select schools with varied socioeconomic backgrounds from different parts of the state, as well as to include at least one rural school and one innercity school. The two elementary schools, two…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Involvement, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education
Hixson, Judson – Policy Briefs, 1990
School-based management and teacher empowerment are consistent elements of school restructuring efforts nationwide. These developments have grown out of frustration over the failure of centralized efforts to significantly improve schools and increase support for individual empowerment. Teacher empowerment is based on four assumptions: (1)…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools
Parent-Involvement Update, 1986
During five meetings conducted in different states by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) to gain insight into the status of 55 parent involvement programs from their organizers and implementors, parental involvement in the secondary education level repeatedly emerged as a shared concern. Following the meetings SEDL…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Involvement, Cooperative Planning, Family Involvement
Ogbu, John U. – 1978
This paper evaluates the Institute's training program, which was designed to help teachers and other educators make parent participation and community involvement in bilingual/bicultural education more effective. Focused on is the effectiveness of the anthropological techniques to which participants in the training program were introduced. The…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Involvement, Cultural Influences, Educational Anthropology
Randolph, Norman – School Intervention Report, 1996
Doing something positive about youth gangs will require hard work, attitude change, and enlisting the help of many people. In addition to the many obvious causes of gangs, there are less well-known factors, such as academic achievement, that are related to youth participation in gangs. Participation in extracurricular activities helps young people…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Involvement, Delinquency, Drug Use
Krajewski, Fran; Osowski, Val – Mott Exchange, 1997
The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation has been involved in the community-school/community-education movement since the 1935 Flint Community Schools (Michigan) experiment led to fuller use of local school facilities for learning and recreation programs. The National Center for Community Education (NCCE) was established in the 1960s as a training…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Community Education, Community Involvement, Community Schools
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Davies, Don, Ed.; Johnson, Vivian R., Ed. – International Journal of Educational Research, 1996
The eight chapters of this theme issue report on studies from 12 countries that focus on the movement toward boundary crossing in education to involve families and communities in education. International studies further the understanding of the effects interventions have in promoting partnerships in education. (SLD)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Involvement
Bregman, Ralph – 1979
One of a series of sixteen knowledge transformation papers, this paper presents an educational planning model which incorporates citizen involvement at the local level and provides a more responsive and efficient vocational education system. In the first section techniques are discussed for encouraging community participation, such as general…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Citizen Participation, Community Cooperation, Community Involvement
Fern, Veronica; And Others – Directions in Language and Education, 1995
This report offers a synthesis of a Special Issues Analysis Center report based on a focus group that studied active learning and its implications for limited English proficient (LEP) students. Active learning is defined as the level of engagement by the student in the instructional process; it implies the development of a community of learners…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Community Involvement, Cultural Influences, English (Second Language)
Vaughan, George B. – SACJTC Occasional Paper, 1993
No institution is better positioned to address the problems facing today's communities than the community college. The colleges are community-based and, through community-based programming (CBP), can place themselves at the center of the organizations and institutions, and collaborate with formal or informal leaders devoted to resolving community…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, College Planning, Community Benefits, Community Colleges
The Bookmark, 1988
The 16 papers in this issue look at the needs of youth through the 1990s, describe ways librarians are meeting those needs, suggest additional services, and analyze the Mohonk Conference held in 1986 and its impact on libraries in the state of Youth in These Changing Times" (Jennifer Birckmeyer); (2) "Oh Boy, Here They Come! Library…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Community Involvement, Cooperative Programs, Day Care Centers
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