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Download full textFisher, Evelyn – 1982
The papers from the 1982 conference on Pennsylvania's Long Range Plan for School Improvement (LRPSI) assist in constructing reality about LRPSI itself. Focusing on the program's registration phase, Charles Gorman offers an alternative proposal, linking registration and evaluation, that would contribute to improving schools and increasing public…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Agents, Community Support, Conference Papers
Peer reviewedDeYoung, Alan J. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1989
Argues that the "social capital" provided to schools by parent and community involvement has been eroded in rural areas by school consolidation, centralization, and urban models, placing all rural students at risk. Traces this erosion in one rural West Virginia school district. Contains 19 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Community Support, Consolidated Schools, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Fuller, Wayne E. – 1994
This illustrated book chronicles the history of the one-room school in the Midwest and its vital influence on American education from the pioneer era through consolidation after World War II. The Midwest's one-room schools were the most democratic in the nation. Located in small independent school districts, they were sustained with the barest of…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Support, Consolidated Schools, Democratic Values
