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Giles-Gee, Helen; Rozewski, Mark – Planning for Higher Education, 2006
Camden, New Jersey, a city of 80,000 located directly across the Delaware River from center-city Philadelphia, is, by any index of urban decay, one of the nation's most distressed urban centers. While severely ineffective, the city houses the essential building blocks of future recovery: branches of four colleges and universities and two major…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Lobbying, Educational Facilities Improvement, Urban Planning
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Quincy. – 1990
A conscious strategy for educational reform has guided the 1990 efforts of the Boston/Chelsea (Massachusetts) Urban Team. Elements of the strategy include the following: (1) acknowledging that the individual school, not the state or federal program, is the fundamental unit of education; (2) breaking down the compartmentalization of bilingual,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy
Martin, Deanna C.; And Others – 1986
This report evaluates the Urban University/Urban School Collaborative Program sponsored by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC). The program provided grants for 16 projects to improve opportunities for youth in urban areas, giving them access to higher education and jobs. The grants were to be used to…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, College School Cooperation, Employment Programs, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)