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Ellis, John – Education and Urban Society, 1983
Discusses effects of federal educational funding on procedural changes, structural changes, personnel opportunities, and student access at local levels since 1965. Suggests that federal programs have had the most pervasive impact on minority group education and that impacts have been greater than the percentage of federal dollars allocated to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Government Role
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Lee, John Chi Kin – Environmental Education Research, 1997
Addresses the gap that has developed in Hong Kong between the Guidelines on Environmental Education in Schools and the actual implementation of those guidelines into practice. Environmental emphasis has been primarily subject-based, and institutional commitment to environmental education has been unsatisfactory. Calls for curriculum reforms and…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Curriculum Development, Ecology, Elementary Secondary Education
Chase, Cheryl M.; Kane, Michael B. – 1983
Recommending that every state increase the duration and intensity of academic learning time (ALT) in schools, this working paper provides a rationale, discusses related research, offers guidelines for selecting and implementing activities, and describes actions schools can take to implement change. In the discussion, duration refers to the total…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Educational Innovation, Educational Needs
Duchnowski, Albert J.; Johnson, Michael K. – 1990
Due to the efforts of mental health consumer and advocacy organizations, there now exists a legislated community-based mental health policy for the treatment of children and adolescents with serious emotional disorders and their families. But the implementation of this policy has not met the intended legislative standards. Accordingly, this…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Health, Childhood Needs, Community Health Services
Smith, R. C. – 1983
This study argues that school-to-work programs should be institutionalized in the schools to provide assistance to students without vocational education, who are not headed for college. Such students, it is asserted, are often disadvantaged, minority, and otherwise underserved youth. The report examines the issue of "school-to-work"…
Descriptors: Career Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities
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Schlossman, Steven L. – American Journal of Education, 1983
Examines the history of German language instruction in American elementary schools (focusing on four midwestern school districts) in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Highlights past administrative and political developments and issues that remain of concern for bilingual education programs today. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bilingual Education, Community Attitudes, Curriculum Development
Hawley, Willis D.; And Others – 1983
A synthesis of existing research and commentary, this book seeks to clarify the national experience with school desegregation and to identify ways of maximizing the potential benefits and reducing the possible costs of desegregation. Chapters 1 and 9 discuss assumptions about the overall consequences of desegregation, while Chapters 2 through 8…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Plans
Tractenberg, Paul L.; Kahn, Laura – 1979
Legal issues of minimum competency testing derive from federal and state constitutional, statutory, and regulatory provisions, and from common law. Constitutional provisions for equal protection, due process, and freedom of belief and privacy, are primarily federal; education provisions are state mandated. Only four court cases have directly…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Discriminatory Legislation, Due Process