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Direct linkIyengar, Radhika – Prospects, 2021
COVID-19 has put education in a challenging place. With millions of children out of school, education needs to reinvent itself. During the pandemic, communities have used this opportunity to support children's education in various ways, including the launching of new online classes. This article takes the social capital theoretical model as its…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, COVID-19, Pandemics, Social Capital
Pirozzo, Ralph – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1990
The Peninsula Enrichment Program in Queensland, Australia, organizes community-based enrichment/extension activities for disadvantaged bright children of preschool to high school age. The article describes funding made available by community service clubs, selection of program speakers, selection of children, and attitudes of parents. (JDD)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment Activities, Extension Education
Peer reviewedKennedy, John W. – Policy Review, 1996
Describes the mentorship programs of the Midtown Education Foundation (MEF), Chicago (Illinois), an initiative that began as an outreach of the Catholic Opus Dei movement. The MEF emphasis on biblically based character development, taught by role models, and embedded in an academic curriculum, is very popular. Early evaluation indicates that best…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, After School Education, Catholic Educators, Community Programs
Download full textColtin, Lillian – 1999
School-age children between the ages of 5 and 14 spend up to 80% of their time out of school. These hours represent an opportunity to help children grow and acquire important social, emotional, cognitive, and physical skills and to help them develop lifelong interests. This time can also be used to provide support for the academic challenges faced…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, After School Education, After School Programs, Community Programs
The Twenty-Sixth Congress of the CPSU and the Development of Public Education in the USSR. Part III.
Kolmakova, M. N.; Kuzin, N. P., Eds. – Soviet Education, 1984
Discussed are nonschool work with children; joint efforts of the school, family, and community to provide communist education work for young people; adult education; vocational/technical education; teacher education; the administration of the general education school; and propaganda of capitalistic countries concerning the history and present…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Capitalism, Communism, Community Programs
National Council of La Raza, Washington, DC. – 1988
The National Council of La Raza has developed five innovative community based demonstration projects to improve the educational outcomes of Hispanics. Three of the projects are designed to address high risk students; the remaining two address the needs of parents and teachers. Each of these projects is designed to be implemented by Hispanic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs
