Descriptor
Source
Author
Baez, Tony | 1 |
Barron, Hal S. | 1 |
Binda, K. P. | 1 |
Cotton, Stephen E. | 1 |
DeYoung, Alan J. | 1 |
Feldman, Doug | 1 |
Fontaine, Carla | 1 |
George, Barbara D. | 1 |
Getz, Lynne Marie | 1 |
Keith, Jeanette | 1 |
Kincheloe, Joe | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Historical Materials | 25 |
Journal Articles | 15 |
Books | 5 |
Reports - Research | 5 |
Reports - Descriptive | 4 |
Opinion Papers | 3 |
Information Analyses | 2 |
Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
Reports - General | 1 |
Speeches/Meeting Papers | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Policymakers | 1 |
Location
China | 2 |
New York (New York) | 2 |
Australia | 1 |
Canada | 1 |
New Mexico | 1 |
New York | 1 |
Ohio (Dayton) | 1 |
Tennessee | 1 |
Virginia | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Martinez-Brawley, Emilia E. – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1982
Discusses the history and philosophy of the premise of rural localism from Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty to its present relationship to the New Federalism of the Reagan administration. Concludes that the concept and its consequences should be reexamined by those in the rural social work profession. (Author/BRR)
Descriptors: Community Control, Definitions, Government Role, Politics

Rury, John L. – Phylon, 1983
Describes how New York City's African Free School became a focal point of Black community aspirations in the early 1800s and how the Black community struggled, with limited success, to maintain a role in determination of educational policies in the school. (CMG)
Descriptors: Black Education, Black History, Black Institutions, Community Control

Cotton, Stephen E. – Educational Research Quarterly, 1984
An attorney involved in Alaska's "Molly Hootch Case" chronicles the events surrounding the class action suit, which resulted in a 1976 consent decree to establish a high school program in all of the 126 villages that wanted one. Legal, educational, and cultural consequences for bush Alaska are discussed. (BS)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Alaska Natives, Boarding Schools, Community Control

Krasner, Michael – Urban Education, 1980
In order to determine why community control groups and low income people have been excluded from power, this study describes and analyzes in detail the politics of education in a typical New York City public school district. (Author/JLF)
Descriptors: Community Control, Decentralization, Elections, Elementary Secondary Education

Kincheloe, Joe – Journal of Thought, 1980
The author considers the 1974 Kanawha County textbook censorship controversy as an attempt by fundamentalist parents to banish "alien" moral influences from the schools and to strengthen community control over learning. He focuses on the role and views of school board member Alice Moore, a leading spokesperson of the fundamentalists.…
Descriptors: Censorship, Community Control, Community Leaders, Conflict

Navarro, Armando – Perspectives in Mexican American Studies, 2000
In 1969 after an intense political campaign, three Mexican Americans won seats on the board of trustees of the Cucamonga (California) School District--the Chicano Movement's first successful effort at community control of a school board. Political organizing strategies, community-initiated self-help projects, the new board's educational reforms,…
Descriptors: Activism, Boards of Education, Community Control, Educational Change

Feldman, Doug – Rural Educator, 1999
The factory model of organization that resulted from the ascension of industry and economic expansion between 1897 and 1921 was applied to education as well as business. National recommendations aimed to standardize rural education, but local application of these unilateral templates reflected local rural cultures. Examples discussed are…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Community Control, Consolidated Schools, Educational Change
Baez, Tony – 1980
This paper was commissioned by the Education Commission of the States to identify the educational needs of Puerto Rican students in the mainland United States. A historical overview of Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans, and their relationships with mainland United States is presented with a focus on the Puerto Rican emigration to the mainland. The role…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Change Strategies, Community Control
Fontaine, Carla – 1998
Historically, participation in school affairs gave rural people a working knowledge of how democracy functioned. In the late 19th century, power shifted from the voice of the many to the voice of a few, as "expert" opinion increasingly influenced state legislators, governors, and national political leaders. The push to consolidate…
Descriptors: Centralization, Community Control, Consolidated Schools, Democracy
Roberts, Carla – Akwe:kon Journal, 1994
Traces the historical relationship between Native Americans and cultural institutions such as museums through three stages: objectification of native peoples themselves as cultural artifacts, interpretation of native cultures on the basis of Eurocentric standards and from the viewpoint of the "vanishing native," and development of…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, American Indians, Art Criticism

Robinson, Jean C. – Comparative Education Review, 1986
Chinese "people-managed schools" began in the 1940s as popular voluntary village schools providing flexible relevant education to rural peasants, but are regarded today as low status and low quality. This change reflects the Chinese Communist Party's incremental move away from both decentralized decision making and populist education to…
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Schools, Decentralization, Educational Development

Binda, K. P.; Nicol, D. G. – 1999
More than a century of centralized government and church control of Aboriginal education in Canada, aimed primarily at cultural assimilation, resulted in injustices, widespread inequalities, and underdevelopment. In the 1970s, after much political wrangling, the Canadian federal government and the First Nations agreed upon a policy of Indian…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian History, Canada Natives, Community Control

Watras, Joseph – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 1995
Among the first of the Model Cities programs, Dayton's program was directed by African American community activists, who instituted important school and neighborhood reforms but blocked efforts to racially desegregate the public schools. The story of Dayton's Model Cities Demonstration Project raises important questions about whether urban renewal…
Descriptors: Activism, Black Education, Boards of Education, Community Control
Smith, Dan T.; DeYoung, Alan J. – Journal of Rural and Small Schools, 1988
Outlines the primary arguments and much of the available evidence on desirable school size. Summarizes important factors in the history of U.S. school consolidation. Suggests that the key to the school size debate may be educational control rather than educational quality. Contains 39 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Control, Consolidated Schools, Educational History
Barron, Hal S. – 1997
Between 1870 and 1930, a "second great transformation" in the Northeast and Midwest was characterized by centralization of the economy, expansion of state power and professional expertise, and a rising urban consumer culture. Communities in the rural North faced a number of challenges: diminishing local control over schools and roads,…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Community Control, Cooperatives, Educational Change
Previous Page | Next Page ยป
Pages: 1 | 2