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Robert Gonzalez; Sarah Komisarow – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
In this paper we study the impact on student absenteeism of a large school-based community crime monitoring program that employed local community members to monitor and report crime on designated city blocks during students' travel to and from school. We find that the program resulted in a 0.78 percentage point reduction in the school-level…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Elementary School Students, School Violence, Crime
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Nuamcharoen, Suwida; Dhirathiti, Nopraenue S. – Policy Futures in Education, 2018
Thailand is a good example of a developing country which is struggling with globally common problems in trying to find solutions for sustainable education development. Education is one of the important methods to build the mindset of Thai people toward sustainable development (SD). The co-production approach is a way of improving public services,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Educational Policy, Sustainable Development
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Sterling, Kymberle; Curry, Susan; Sporer, Amy; Emery, Sherry; Mermelstein, Robin – Health Education Research, 2009
Efficacious "packaged" teen smoking cessation treatment programs, those developed by national organizations, are widely disseminated to local communities to help teens quit smoking. The implementation fidelity of these programs in community settings has not been documented. The efficacy of these programs could be lessened if they are not…
Descriptors: Smoking, National Organizations, Administrators, Community Programs
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Spoth, Richard; Guyll, Max; Lillehoj, Catherine J.; Redmond, Cleve; Greenberg, Mark – Journal of Community Psychology, 2007
This study examined a community-university partnership model for sustained, high-quality implementation of evidence-based interventions. In the context of a randomized study, it assessed whether implementation quality for both family-focused and school-based universal interventions could be achieved and maintained through community-university…
Descriptors: Evidence, Intervention, School Community Programs, Partnerships in Education