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Peer reviewedDryfoos, Joy G. – Journal of School Health, 1998
Rapid proliferation of school-based health centers is occurring during the time that school systems are seeking to improve educational practice. Absence of connection between school reorganization and provision of human services may lead to failure. The emerging community school model integrates quality education with effective health, mental…
Descriptors: Child Health, Community Schools, Educational Change, Primary Health Care
Peer reviewedCarter, Kathy Gibson; Winecoff, H. Larry – Community Education Journal, 1998
Compares community education and service learning; outlines contributions of service learning to the skills identified by the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills. A chart identifies which states have the following: community education plans and associations; service learning and community education in the same state agency; and…
Descriptors: Community Education, Community Schools, Educational Change, Job Skills
Download full textBeaumont, Constance E. – 2000
This report examines public policy effects on historic neighborhood school expansion, renovation, and replacement needs. It addresses four basic questions: (1) Are public policies inadvertently sabotaging the very type of community-centered school that many parents and educators are calling for today? (2) Do some policies and practices promote…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Neighborhood Schools
Peer reviewedMeier, Ron B. – Child and Youth Services, 1985
Surveys the development of community education and efforts to adapt this approach to the Israeli educational system. Assesses the potential for integration between community schools and group care institutions for children. Reports that Israeli community education favors program over process; educational objectives over social problem objectives;…
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Community Education, Community Schools, Educational Objectives
Fishman, Joshua A.; And Others – 1980
A preliminary report is offered on schools that offer all or a greater part of their instruction in a language other than English. Emphasis is laid on instruction geared toward the language maintenance of ethnic communities. Language reports include the approximate number of speakers and number, distribution, and basic characteristics of schools.…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups
Dove, Linda A. – 1982
This monograph synthesizes and summarizes current ideas and actions concerning teacher-community linkages. Its main emphasis is on developing countries, where primary and lower secondary schools are major policy tools in the drive for national and economic development and where most people live and will continue to live in rural areas. Based on an…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship
Mohsini, S. R. – 1989
The "Folkehojskole," or Folk High School (more accurately translated as "People's College") which is Denmark's unique contribution to adult education, offer residential adult instruction. The aims of folk education are to help adults behave as independent and mature members of the community and think and speak freely. Emphasis…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizenship Education, Community Schools, Cultural Education
