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Szolowicz, Michael – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
In the fall of 2013, a parents' group formed to protest the new Common Core based mathematics textbook recently adopted by their school district. Quickly allying with teachers, the new coalition began to, "hammer," the district to drop the Common Core and return to more traditional texts and pedagogies. They did so by speaking at…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Resistance to Change, Politics of Education, Local Issues
Kim, Karl E. – 1983
This analysis is the third of a series of seven reports on the ways that the urban fiscal crisis has affected children. There has been little reorganization of government services on the state, regional, or local level to compensate for the benefits to children lost as a result of local property tax limitations enacted under Proposition 2-1/2 in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Welfare, Community Action, Finance Reform
Philbin, Meg; Phillips, Rebecca – 1988
This case study concerns the forming of a Marietta, Ohio unity committee, entitled Citizens for Social and Racial Justice, in response to the local Ku Klux Klan's (KKK) request for a parade permit in order to demonstrate against blacks in this city. Marietta, the county seat of Washington County, Ohio, has a population composed of both white and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citizen Participation, Community, Community Action
James G. Irvine Foundation, San Francisco, CA. – 2000
The recurrence of stories throughout California communities using narrative art to strengthen themselves led to an inquiry that is described in this report. The research question was: how can different ways of discovering and presenting local stories in public contribute to the strengthening of community? The inquiry had six components: (1) a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Action, Community Change, Community Development
Gabriel, Roy M.; Brinkerhoff, Charles – 1989
Abuse of alcohol and other drugs causes a variety of problems in a community. Accordingly, this is a manual for use by groups of citizens working to build a broadly based community alcohol and drug abuse prevention program. It includes both a systematic framework which a coalition can apply to its community, and a detailed case study of one…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Case Studies, Community Action, Community Coordination