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Gil, Elizabeth – Journal of School Leadership, 2019
This article examines the perceptions of students who observed their adult family members' participation and also participated in Connection and Access through Technology (CAtT), a family-oriented community-based program that taught technology skills to adult family members of school-aged children. This qualitative study applies conceptions of…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Community Programs, Empowerment, Leadership
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Hunter-Doniger, Tracey; Berlinsky, Robin – Arts Education Policy Review, 2017
This article takes an analytical look at Engaging Creative Minds, a pilot community program geared to enrich learning of common core standards through a local artist-in-residence partnership with public schools. This program was designed to increase the level of engagement and student growth in classes that typically relied on rote memory and…
Descriptors: Art, Studio Art, Artists, Art Education
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Nygreen, Kysa – Policy Futures in Education, 2017
This article traces the work of community-based popular educators with an explicit commitment to "Freirean" popular education as they shifted from teaching in a community-based setting to an after-school program focused on standardized test-preparation. Drawing from ethnographic observation and interviews, it examines educators'…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Governance, Social Justice, Popular Education
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Wodarski,; And Others – Child Care Quarterly, 1976
Examines the application of group level behavior modification techniques to a group of ten fifth-and sixth-grade antisocial children, and discusses the success of efforts to increase the incidence of prosocial behavior and decrease nonsocial and antisocial behavior. Describes an assessment procedure for behavioral measurement. (MS)
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavior Modification, Behavioral Science Research
Arbreton, Amy J. A.; Goldsmith, Julie; Sheldon, Jessica – Public/Private Ventures, 2005
The James Irvine Foundation launched the Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) initiative in 1999 with the goal of improving the academic achievement of children in the lowest-performing schools in five California cities. In 2004, CORAL adopted a more targeted approach toward reaching this goal by integrating a regular…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, After School Programs, Data Analysis, Literacy