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Erdelez, Sandra; Doty, Philip – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
Presents challenges to knowledge management revealed in a 1998 study of county judges and clerks in rural Texas courts. Proposes a model for integration of knowledge management work practices in local courts into large-scale state information systems. This model emphasizes the need for a holistic, well-integrated view of local practitioners' work…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Court Judges, Courts, Employment Practices
Download full textGoreham, Gary A.; And Others – 1987
A model was developed to explore the relationship between the personal characteristics of rural community residents, their social involvement, and their social awareness. Specific personal characteristic variables were educational level, gender, gross family income, and marital status. Social involvement variables were personal impact of farm…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Change, Community Organizations, Individual Characteristics
Cohen, Sylvan H.; Redburn, Steve – 1977
An investigation of a proposed public transit was based on the assumptions that knowledge of school tax referenda should provide a framework for understanding voter behavior in other types of referenda, and that propositions generated in one type of research should hold up in another. It was anticipated that there would be spillover effects from…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Conflict, Decision Making, Educational Finance
Johnson, Troy – 1994
This study presents an expanded methodology for economic impact analysis to measure the impact of a community college, South Plains College (SPC), Texas, on a specified nonlocal economy. The research had four parts. First an economic impact study was conducted for SPC and its impact on the local economy of Hockley County, where the college is…
Descriptors: Business, Community Colleges, Economic Change, Economic Impact
Obura, Willis Bill – 1977
Rural Africa includes some 80% of the African population; its people are poverty stricken, illiterate, ill-sheltered, and ill-nourished. These circumstances make rural development absolutely vital. However, past rural development policies have failed to take into consideration the structure and division of labor in the farm family, the traditional…
Descriptors: African Culture, Agricultural Trends, Change Agents, Community Development
Feldman, Jay; Ouimette, Monique – Center for Collaborative Education, 2004
For the past decade, the federal government has supported comprehensive school reform as a way to improve under-performing schools (US Department of Education 1998). Thousands of schools across the country are now implementing scores of different whole school reform models with the hopes of improving school culture and raising student performance.…
Descriptors: Federal Government, School Restructuring, Middle Schools, Models
