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Yu, Guoxing; Thomas, Sally M. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2008
The Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) II data are analysed, using multilevel modelling techniques, to explore the key issues underlying the development of school effectiveness models. Differences between schools in Grade 6 pupils' reading and mathematics achievements are examined and the percentage…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Grade Repetition, Community Involvement, Academic Achievement
Nannay, Robert W. – Man/Society/Technology, 1973
The pilot project in career education developed at the University of Maine at Portland-Gorham for grades K-6 is described. It is centered around the concept of the USOE's School-Based Model. (MS)
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Career Education, Community Involvement, Elementary Education

Keller, Beth M. – Educational Leadership, 1995
Accelerated learning involves a philosophy and systematic process for providing the best education for each child. Lessons are not really fast-track but designed to enrich students' learning experience through higher expectations, relevant course content, and stimulating instruction. Accelerated schools have three guiding principles: unity of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Elementary Education, Enrichment Activities

Buggey, JoAnne – Social Education, 1976
This article examines social studies in the primary grades and shows how community resources can facilitate social learning. A three-stage model is examined which addresses the issues of citizenship and community involvement in the primary grades. It provides for teacher/school, parent/community, and learner involvement in all stages of…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Community Resources, Educational Resources
Evans, Robert L.; Kilgore, Alvah – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
The program described involves the city school district, the university, the local community, and the teachers association. (IRT)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Bentley, Carol L. – 1990
In September 1988, the Corporate Community Schools of America (C/CSA) opened its first model school in Chicago's North Lawndale, an innercity neighborhood scarred by deprivation, violence, and hopelessness. After briefly describing the school's laboratory approach, this report defines C/CSA's philosophy, goals, and educational plan and refers to…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Cooperation, Educational Change, Elementary Education

Schrier, Leslie – Hispania, 1996
This article describes a prototype for articulation for Spanish-language programs in the elementary schools, along with examples of how it can be used to create an articulated Spanish-language program within a current elementary school curriculum. (17 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Community Involvement, Context Effect, Cultural Context
Petty, Osmond; And Others – Health Education, 1990
This article presents a model for mapping relationships in health and family life education. The model emphasizes a behavioral approach to health promotion as an individual and collective endeavor, resulting from decision making by individuals and the wider community. Sample curriculum units are included. (Author/IAH)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Family Life Education

Kline, Rachel – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2000
A Colombian model of rural elementary education has increased student achievement. Basic characteristics are active learning, structured yet flexible and multifaceted nature, extensive training and support for teachers, and opportunities for meaningful involvement of students, teachers, and community members. A Guatemalan reform based on the model…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Collegiality, Community Involvement, Comparative Education
Madison Local Schools, Mansfield, OH. – 1984
The Madison Local School District offers guidelines for developing and implementing an independently financed, after-school enrichment program for latchkey children in rural areas. The district, located 40 miles from Cleveland, Ohio, borders on Lake Erie. Sections of the guide concern: (1) program development; (2) establishment of the environment;…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Community Involvement, Demonstration Programs, Educational Finance
Taylor, Robert E. – 1972
There currently exist four alternative ways of delivering or facilitating career education goals, including the school-based, employer-based, home community-based, and residential-based models. The school-based Comprehensive Career Education Model(CCEM) is being developed in six local school districts, and its current objective is to develop and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Community Involvement, Community Programs
Smorodin, Calla; And Others – 1983
A five-chapter manual provides a model for involving the state attorney general and the business and professional communities in law-related consumer education at the elementary school level. Chapter I, introduction, describes the history and special features of the program as it was developed for the St. Louis (Missouri) public schools. Chapter…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Community Involvement, Consumer Education, Cooperative Planning
McLaughlin, Margaret M. – 2002
The benefits of girls' education include increased family incomes, later marriages, reduced fertility rates, reduced infant and maternal mortality rates, better nourished families, and greater opportunities for women. However, ingrained attitudes towards women are difficult to change. Only when communities believe that the benefits of girls in…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Disadvantaged Youth
Royal Oak City School District, MI. – 1974
The implementation guide is for the Learning Experiences in Technology Project (Project LET), in which teachers utilize the tools, materials, and processes of technology in relating traditional studies in a more concrete manner to the development of career awareness in grades K-6. Learning by doing is the theme ofthe project which seeks to improve…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Awareness, Career Education, Community Involvement