In the light of the global trends towards international assessment, inter-country comparison and policy convergence, this article critically discusses the contextual factors that influence educational success in Shanghai and Singapore. Focussing on the structural and cultural frames, this article maintains that the educational achievement in…

Various surveys have documented widespread support among US parents, students, teachers and health professionals for school-based comprehensive sexuality education. In many school districts, however, the sexuality education provided is minimal, incomplete or fragmented, and essential topics are often omitted or inaccurately presented. To help…

Success in new missions for community colleges requires a sense of legitimacy that colleges have lost in recent years, in terms of the internal and external conviction that the college's activities are necessary, worthy, and effective. (MB)

The goal of this panel was to generate scientific knowledge on how the organizational, administrative, physical, personal, and social aspects of the classroom, school, district, and community support instructional personnel in reaching educational goals. A matrix was developed using locational variables (within school and outside school) and…

Nairobi College, in East Palo Alto, California, is a school concerned with making education relevant to the ghetto community. The school, founded by students, is taught by community members and serves an area that is approximately 80 per cent black. In nine months Nairobi College has enrolled 120 students; 40 instructors offer 25 courses, which…

Presents a framework for international education in community colleges that is consistent with a commitment to community-based, performance-oriented education. The framework is based on an interactive forces theory that relates the success of a new program to interaction between institutional goals, and personal and extrapersonal forces. (AYC)

Questions that the general public may have about the six national educational goals formulated by President Bush and the U.S. state governors in 1990 and the administration's plan for educational reform are addressed in this digest. Ten questions and brief answers are presented in the following areas: defining the goals; the attainability,…

Describes several pilot projects used in Arizona school districts to plan teenage parenting programs. Also defines strategies to develop such projects, including community support, goal identification, program objectives, and learning activities. Discussed also is the importance of multiple funding sources including federal and school district…

This pamphlet seeks to answer most of the questions and correct some of the mistakes the author encountered during a first-hand study of conditions in over 100 small museums. The pamphlet is a short presentation of the fundamental elements of good museum management, with clarifying comments for those least familiar with museum work. The main…

The author suggests a method by which educational expenditures may be related to educational needs without the use of computers or PPBS. Teachers and principals are actively involved in this budget process, which seems especially relevant to small districts that have no access to computers. (Author/DN)

Five key issues can serve to summarize the complexity of the restructuring process and some of the challenges being faced: (1) developing a vision that unites projects; (2) identifying outcomes that will be assessed; (3) obtaining the active support of the community; (4) redefining the role of principals from power-wielders to facilitators; and…

Suggestions for helping communities achieve the first National Education Goal--by the year 2000, all children will start school ready to learn--are presented in this document. The ways in which readiness is developed and what communities can do to support families are described. Examples are provided of 13 community projects that are preparing…

The Goals 2000: Educate America Act calls for partnerships across local, state, and federal levels. This document offers suggestions for community organization to achieve the national education goals. The first section includes information on forming a steering committee, creating task forces, avoiding turf battles and finger pointing, defining…

Argues that, although reform legislation has been enacted to produce higher standards on the assumption that they will produce higher quality in the nation's schools, the act of passing laws and mandating changes to create higher quality do not necessarily equate with true educational reform. (NKA)

By using the deductive or the inductive approach to needs assessment, or a combination of both approaches, school administrators can allocate physical or human resources in accordance with community priorities. (DCS)