Learning in and through the arts helps develop the essential knowledge, skills and creative capacities all students need to succeed in school, work and life. As building-level leaders, school principals play a key role in ensuring every student has access to high-quality and equitable arts learning as part of a well-rounded education. This guide…

Competency education, an educator-led reform, is taking root in schools and districts across the country. In some states, state leadership has cleared the path with policies to advance competency education. This paper seeks to map out the terrain of the district implementation strategies being used to convert traditional systems into personalized,…

Learning in and through the arts develops the essential knowledge, skills, and creative capacities all students need to succeed in school, work, and life. As the top building-level leaders, school principals play a key role in ensuring every student receives a high-quality arts education as part of a complete education. In a time of shrinking…

The short existence of Early College High Schools has not allowed for considerable research to assess their operational effectiveness. Furthermore, the effectiveness perceptions and reactions of students enrolled at these schools have not been given ample opportunity to be studied--an integral component of any school's operation. The purpose of…

Analyses the assumptions made by the Bartley-Daly Act (Chapter 766) about the nature of children, education, the schools and the community outside the school in terms of the law's implications for regular children. (Author/AM)

The results of parent and community involvement in early childhood education in a curriculum of caring are commented on in relation to Urie Bronfenbrenner's remarks about family and society. (JMF)

Renewed emphasis on parent and community involvement is critical to success of Goals 2000. U.S. Department of Education is working with broad-based coalition of parent and education groups on new Family Involvement Initiative that will facilitate cooperation of parents and families with schools and communities. Schools succeed best by making…

To help Connecticut school districts both develop goals and involve the community in the process--phase 1 of the planning, evaluation, and resource management (PERM) model--this handbook discusses goal-setting processes and models. An introduction notes the state's educational goals, outlines the PERM model, and describes the role of goals in…

Discusses the development of communication between school and community. This includes several vital procedures and contributing organizational structures which provide secondary and intermediate age students with exposures to a variety of career opportunities. (Author/RK)

Unlike classical experimental evaluation techniques, this evaluation design is intended to accommodate maximum flexibility and a dual purpose: to learn from the program under scrutiny and to help the program in its efforts. The program being evaluated here is the PUSH for Excellence (PUSH-EXCEL) Program whose activities focus on promoting an…

After examining factors contributing to success and failure in the schools, the authors present a six-stage program for success--develop community-based goals, develop a district philosophy for implementing the goals, develop a framework of implementation policies, develop district-level learning objectives, develop instructional programs to…

Author cautions educators that improvement in educational practices must be evident before the public's attitudes about schools can be changed significantly. (Author/MB)

Describes a program of educational improvement wherein the community and teacher interacted to save precious time in the classroom and enhanced the relationship of parents and educators. (RK)

Distinguishes the differences between our present system of schooling and education, which deals with developing the human potential. Views the concept of community education as the best model for the effective conversion of a school system to an education system. (Author/MLF)