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Shannon H. Rogers; Catherine M. Ashcraft; Jayson Seaman; Scott R. Lemos; Lauren Krans; Jennifer Marsh – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2024
Natural resources provide a high quality of life for residents and are often one of a community's greatest advantages for workforce attraction, youth retention, recreation, climate resilience, tourism, and broader economic development. A better understanding of how nature and local economies function together is critical to fostering synergies…
Descriptors: Natural Resources, Recreational Activities, Conservation (Environment), Economic Development
Fehrer, Kendra; Myung, Jeannie; Kimner, Hayin – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2023
California is prioritizing equity in education post-COVID-19 by investing in community schools. Districts have an important leadership responsibility to develop the conditions, capacities, and resources for effective, sustainable community schools. Specifically, districts must strengthen system-level supports and infrastructure to ensure…
Descriptors: School Districts, Role, Community Development, Community Schools
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Daniel T. Remley; Glennon Sweeney; Julie Fox; Laquore J. Meadows – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2021
Between 2000 and 2013, the suburbs in the country's largest metro areas saw their low-income population grow twice as fast as primary urban cities. In 2018, the Pew Research Center reported that poverty increased more sharply in suburbs than in urban and rural counties (Parker et al., 2018). The rise in suburban poverty coincides with an…
Descriptors: Suburbs, Poverty, Economically Disadvantaged, Food
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Han, Song – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2021
In the current climate of pursuing educational equity, the construction of educational community is a worthwhile experiment in achieving equitable development of urban and rural education. Establishing a multi-channel cooperation mechanism between urban and rural schools and giving full play to the existing high-quality educational resources are…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Urban Education, Rural Education, Educational Resources
Herzenberg, Stephen; McAuliff, John – Keystone Research Center, 2015
State efforts to boost the economy--economic development--first came to Pennsylvania in the 1950s with the establishment of the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority (PIDA) low interest loan program used to recruit manufacturers to Pennsylvania, including devastated coal regions. Since that time, economic development in Pennsylvania and…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Strategic Planning, Economic Change, Economic Opportunities
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Malek, Jalaluddin Abdul; Razaq Ahmad, Abdul; Mahzan Awang, Mohd; Alfitri – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2014
Telecentres in the 21st century may be able to improve standard of living, quality of life, and stability of knowledge for the rural population. The role of telecentres is widely increasing in developing political and management awareness, economic, socio-culture, technology, education and regulation awareness in rural communities. Telecentres in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Rural Development, Community Development
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Besser, Terry L.; Miller, Nancy J.; Malik, Roshan – Social Indicators Research, 2012
The purpose of this paper is to provide an alternative operationalization of amenities that does not privilege certain kinds of natural resources and climatic conditions and that can be used for assessing the quality of life in small towns. The amenity inventory presented here extends previous literature by including a broad range of amenities…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Municipalities, Quality of Life, School Community Relationship
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Greenberg, Jeffrey K.; Hefley, Daniel; Brice, Peter; Hoti, Arben; Engel, Allison; Erkman, Caleb; Yates, Jonie; Webb, Forrest; O'Rourke, Katie; Ademi, Kaltrina – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2012
Geology is increasingly involved in the planning and implementation of community development projects throughout the globe. A partnership among the Water For Life organization, Wheaton College in Illinois, and the village of Tushile in Kosovo during the past few years has proven to be successful in potentially sustainable improvements, including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Earth Science, Science Instruction, Partnerships in Education
Hutzel, Karen; Bastos, Flavia M. C.; Cozier, Kimberly J. – Teachers College Press, 2012
This anthology places art at the center of meaningful urban education reform. Providing a fresh perspective on urban education, the contributors describe a positive, asset-based community development model designed to tap into the teaching/learning potential already available in urban cities. Rather than focusing on a lack of resources, this…
Descriptors: Community Development, Urban Schools, Art Education, Educational Change
Etherington, Stuart – Adults Learning, 2010
All corners of the media are scrutinising David Cameron's "Big Society", from every conceivable angle. While the concept has caught the public's imagination, the greater challenge of fleshing out what the Big Society will actually offer and require of communities is unfinished business. The National Council for Voluntary Organisations…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Community Resources, Community Involvement, Outreach Programs
Lennett, Benjamin; Morris, Sarah J.; Byrum, Greta – New America Foundation, 2012
Based on a request for information (RFI) submitted to The University Community Next Generation Innovation Project (Gig.U), the paper describes a model for universities to develop next generation broadband infrastructure in their communities. In the our view universities can play a critical role in spurring next generation networks into their…
Descriptors: Universities, Role, Futures (of Society), Internet
Payne, Tara – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2012
Nearly 50 years after the landmark legislation aimed to open higher education to all Americans, colleges and students face a new set of threats. The Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) was signed into law on Nov. 8, 1965 to strengthen the educational resources of colleges and universities and to provide financial assistance for students in…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Higher Education, Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid
Neugebauer, Roger – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2009
Having worked in the early childhood field for over three decades, the author has seen a lot of changes: The supply of child care services has increased ten-fold and the public respect for early childhood services has risen nearly as much. Despite these changes, certain challenges for these field have not been successfully addressed: Compensation…
Descriptors: Community Development, Young Children, Child Care, Early Childhood Education
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Scanlon, Eileen – Distance Education, 2012
This article focuses on the potential of free tools, particularly inquiry tools for influencing participation in twenty-first-century learning in science, as well as influencing the development of communities around tools. Two examples are presented: one on the development of an open source tool for structured inquiry learning that can bridge the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Development, Observation, Science Instruction
Rodale Press, Inc., Emmaus, PA. – 1985
This paper describes some of the tools that The Regeneration Project, in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, has developed for use in the process of local economic improvement. One or more of these may be of interest to other individuals in communities that wish to undertake similar projects. Regenerative development provides markets for locally produced goods…
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Coordination, Community Development, Community Programs
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