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Parmenter, Tom, Ed. – 1970
In this special issue of "Inequality in Education", ESEA Title I and parent participation are the central themes. The leading article describes Title I actions in Calais, Maine, and Providence, Rhode Island. The problems in both these towns appear to be quite different from those in large, industrial cities. The community which would…
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Involvement, Federal Legislation, Legal Problems
Zeigler, L. Harmon; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1977
Whether the goal of economic equality is retained or abandoned, a change in the pattern of control over education seems inevitable. The options range from extreme centralization to maximum individual control. However, in no case should the choice be clouded by unrealistic expectations about what formal education can accomplish. (Author)
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Community Control, Educational Administration, Educational History
National Advisory Council on Indian Education, Washington, DC. – 1977
Reflecting the concerns of the National Advisory Council on Indian Education (NACIE) regarding issues that improve and promote American Indian and Alaska Native self-determination as mandated by the Indian Self-Determination and Educational Assistance Act, this annual report documents NACIE's 1976 activities and presents NACIE's 1976…
Descriptors: Accountability, Advisory Committees, Agency Role, Alaska Natives
ORBIS Associates, Washington, DC. – 1996
Through a series of organizational and instructional changes, comprehensive planning aims to make it possible for all children to reach the same high academic standards. Educators and parents of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) students, as well as other members of tribal communities, must participate in this planning to ensure that the…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Community Control, Educational Change, Educational Planning
Long, David C.; And Others – 1977
Faced with a legal mandate to equalize educational resources available to its public elementary schools, can the Board of Education of the District of Columbia respond effectively to the public pressure for decentralization of its decision-making systems? The answer may be determined through the responses to two further questions: to what extent…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Boards of Education, Citizen Participation, Community Control
National Urban League, Inc., New York, NY. – 1971
This pamphlet is designed to inform the parents of disadvantaged elementary and secondary school students of the provisions of ESEA Title I, and of the possible abuses of Title I funds which might otherwise be allocated to the direct improvement of their children's education. Its contents include: parents' guide to ESEA Title I: what it is and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Advisory Committees, Community Control, Disadvantaged Youth
Antell, Will – 1975
The crucial elements of control which have developed in the educational systems of the U.S. are: (1) the collective social power of government to require participation in formal education and to stipulate the conditions of that participation (i.e., legal control); (2) the authority to make and the power to enforce decisions that appropriate…
Descriptors: American Indians, Community Control, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences