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CBE Report, 1985
This volume contains the texts of the papers and discussions presented at a conference on community-based development. The following materials are included: "Opening Remarks" (John Zippert); "Guest Speaker Remarks" (Colman McCarthy); "Community-Based Development" (Blandina Cardenas Ramirez); "Community-Based Colleges" (panel discussions moderated…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Change Strategies, Citizen Participation
Making Afterschool Count, 1999
This document consists of the three 1999 issues of a journal highlighting the Making After-School Count Initiative, programs across the country wherein communities and schools cooperate to serve children during after-school hours. The February 1999 issue describes grassroots efforts by California parents and religious leaders to secure funding for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, After School Programs, At Risk Persons, Community Involvement
Northwest Education, 1998
School-community collaborations are partnerships that can take different forms and serve many purposes. An overview of some partnership models is provided in this text. It shows how schools can play a central role in the revitalization of a community by serving as community centers and by fostering school-based enterprises. Ways in which students…
Descriptors: Community Services, Cooperative Programs, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Kay, H. L.; Tett, Lynn; Martin, Ian; Munn, Pamela; Ranson, Stewart; Martin, Jane – Interchange, 1998
This study examined the relationship between schools and community education in Scotland from September 1996 to April 1998, and provides a national overview and identifies examples of effective practice in collaboration and joint provision between schools and community education. The study was undertaken in two stages. The first stage provided a…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Education, Community Role, Educational Objectives
Jensen, Mary Cihak – OSSC Bulletin, 1985
Partnerships between schools and businesses are becoming more frequent and more reciprocal as the two find common interests; the Salem-Keizer (Oregon) Public Schools provide a nationally recognized example of such a partnership. Salem's program began in 1981 with a joint school board and Chamber of Commerce policy statement. Despite economic…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Cooperative Planning, Coordination, Educational Cooperation
Demmon-Berger, Debbie – Updating School Board Policies, 1986
Interest in preschool programs appears to be increasing, but the experts continue to disagree over the value of such programs. This review of recent developments accomplishes the following: (1) looks at the popular acceptance of a school-sponsored, universal, voluntary, free, prekindergarten program in South Tama County, Iowa; (2) notes research…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Community Support, Preschool Education
Harvey, Brooke, Ed. – Spotlight on MOST, 2002
This document comprises three issues of a newsletter highlighting the MOST Initiative (Making the Most of Out-of-School Time) published by the National Institute on Out-of-School Time. Appearing regularly in the newsletter are updates of after-school programs in Chicago, Seattle, and Boston. The January, 2000 issue features an interview with…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Financial Support, Homework, Models
Hsia, Heidi M. – 1997
Juvenile crime and its immediate and long-term economic and human costs have become a national concern. Programs to prevent and reduce delinquency have developed across the country and one such program in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (which includes Pittsburgh) is described in this bulletin. The Allegheny program exemplifies a large-scale,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Action, Delinquency, Delinquency Prevention
Hoff, David – The Institute Brief, 1997
This report provides guidelines and a process for people with disabilities living in Massachusetts to follow to evaluate employment service options that will allow them to receive services best meeting their individual needs. Strategies for finding out information about the different programs and a checklist are given by which to evaluate…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Disabilities, Employment Programs
Keim, William A., Ed.; Keim, Marybelle C., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1981
This collection of essays examines the role of marketing in the recruitment and retention of community college students. First, Philip Kotler and Leslie A. Goldgehn define the marketing process and assess its potential benefits. Richard C. Richardson, Jr., and Donald S. Doucette question the effectiveness of marketing in the community college.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Mass Media, Needs Assessment, Program Effectiveness
Moreno Garcia, Teresa, Ed. – Espacio para la Infancia, 2001
This Spanish- and Portuguese-language bulletin is a follow-up to No. 15 (PS 030 558), which examined some Effectiveness Initiative (EI) projects. This issue presents some beginning efforts to reflect on what has been learned through EI and to draw conclusions. The articles cover the results of EI projects from such angles as their relations with…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Family Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
Evaluation Exchange: Emerging Strategies in Evaluating Child and Family Services, 1997
This document is comprised of the 1997 issues of a quarterly newsletter of the Harvard Family Research Project, designed to share new ideas and experiences in evaluating systems reform and comprehensive child and family services. The first issue focuses on evaluation methodology and includes articles on the following topics: (1) mixing evaluation…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Community Programs, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Youth in Action Bulletin, 1998
This bulletin is designed as a how-to-do-it workbook and guide to help young people plan and implement crime prevention projects to make their communities safer and healthier by using a five-step Success Cycle. Some examples of programs around the country provide a starter list to show the sorts of programs young people can develop. A wide variety…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Crime, Planning
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
Moretz, H. Lynn – Innovation Abstracts, 1983
The media production department of Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) began quality circle meetings in January 1981 after studying the process of quality circles and obtaining the understanding and support of the college administration. A quality circle is a small group of people doing similar work who voluntarily meet on a regular basis to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Colleges, Educational Innovation