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Chaikind, Stephen, Ed.; Fowler, William J., Ed. – 2001
This yearbook reaffirms the connections between the field of education finance and the wider education community. Among the topics it examines are curricula reform, outcome assessment, accountability, community control, and privatization. Twelve chapters include: (1) "Education Finance in the New Millennium: Overview and Summary" (Stephen Chaikind…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Control, Educational Finance, Educational Trends
Download full textPerrone, Vito, Ed. – 1998
The Annenberg Rural Challenge is a national effort to revitalize rural communities and schools and their long-standing values of community, democracy, and care for the natural environment. This collection of five essays presents a number of themes that are central to the Rural Challenge's philosophy. "Bringing It All Back Home: Reclaiming the…
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Development, Democracy, Educational Change
Leue, Mary M., Ed. – 1992
Beginning in the mid-1960s, thousands of small alternative schools sprang up across the United States and Canada. These schools varied widely in programs and policies, but common factors among them were a disenchantment with conventional schooling, a desire to reform education, and (frequently) the belief that schools should be controlled by the…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Community Control, Community Schools, Educational Change
Whitty, Geoff; Seddon, Terri – 1994
This publication contains two papers on the implications of school decentralization for teacher education, student achievement, and democracy. The first paper, "Devolution in Education Systems: Implications for Teacher Professional Development and Pupil Performance" (Geoff Whitty), explores the way education reform movements for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Control, Decentralization, Democracy
Everhart, Robert B., Ed. – 1982
The following 14 essays consider relationships among schooling, education, and the state; alternatives to existing systems; and educating minorities and the disadvantaged: (1) "Growing Up Blighted: Reflections on the 'Secret Power' in the American Experience" (C. Burgess); (2) "The Evolving Political Structure of American…
Descriptors: Community Control, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Educational Legislation
Olson, Paul – 1976
In a series of essays, the author analyzes and comments on the perceived weaknesses of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) testing program. The basis of his criticism is that the NAEP has attempted to establish national norms, thereby disregarding the pluralistic nature of American society and the historical basis for community…
Descriptors: Community Control, Culture Fair Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
May, Stephen, Ed. – 1999
After a long history as a tool of forced assimilation of indigenous populations, education is now a key arena in which indigenous peoples can reclaim and revalue their languages and cultures and thereby improve the academic success of indigenous students. Community-based education offers a means by which indigenous peoples can regain a measure of…
Descriptors: Activism, American Indian Education, American Indians, Bilingual Education
