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Peer reviewedMullarney, Patrick – Community Education Journal, 1974
Descriptors: Community Education, Community Schools, Decentralization, Federal State Relationship
Coles, Robert – Nat Elem Princ, 1969
Reprinted from the Fall 1968 issue of "Daedalus.
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Mothers, Black Students, Black Youth
Action for Boston Community Development, Inc., MA. – 1964
DURING THE PERIOD UNDER REVIEW, ABCD WAS ENGAGED IN PROGRAM ELABORATION AND IMPLEMENTATION, ESPECIALLY IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE BOSTON YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES PROJECT. IT HAS ATTEMPTED TO MOVE FROM HOPES AND IDEAS TO TANGIBLE OPERATIONS, TO INSURE THAT CHANGE TAKES PLACE AND TO DESIGN PROGRAMS WITH SUFFICIENT CLARITY SO THAT THEIR USEFULNESS CAN BE…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Demonstrations (Educational), Disadvantaged, Educational Objectives
Download full textFeagin, Joe R. – 1974
This report on ghetto social structure, surveying a sample of 120 black women from Boston, is an examination of the extent to which black urbanites maintain personal ties within the ghetto area. Nine chapters listed as follows constitute the document: social organization in the black ghetto; Boston-the city and the sample, primary social ties,…
Descriptors: Black Community, Blacks, Females, Ghettos
Peer reviewedSampson, Robert J.; Laub, John H. – Child Development, 1994
Reanalyzed data from Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck's study of 500 delinquents and 500 nondelinquents from low-income neighborhoods of Boston between 1924 and 1935. Found that low supervision, weak parent-child attachment, and erratic, threatening, and harsh discipline, contributed to delinquency. Suggests that strong family social controls may serve…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Children, Delinquency, Delinquency Causes
Marsh, Lisa; Snow, Pamela – 2002
In 1870, Boston, Massachusetts, was an overcrowded, noisy, and dirty city. Concerned with the health and happiness of Bostonians restricted to these unhealthy surroundings, the city hired Frederick Law Olmsted to design a park system. The series of parks he designed over the next several years is known as the Emerald Necklace. From lovely…
Descriptors: Curriculum Enrichment, Heritage Education, Historic Sites, Intermediate Grades
WGBH-TV, Boston, MA. – 1972
An evaluation of the demonstration Urban Conservation Project (UCP) produced by WGBH, Boston's public television station, is presented. The project, released under the title "If You Live in a City, Where Do You Live?", seeks to link the value systems represented by the predominantly rural American conservation ethic with the plight and…
Descriptors: Books, Citizen Participation, Conservation Education, Curriculum Development
ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education, New York, NY. – 1977
This volume contains speeches made by educators, civil servants and administrators who attended a conference devoted to redefining the problems of education in the context of urban life. Edmund W. Gordon's presentation provides a basic framework of urbanicity, its environmental and social characteristics, and three broad categories which have…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Educational Resources, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
