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Download full textKansas State Board of Education, Topeka. – 1993
The Kansas State Board of Education's Quality Performance Accreditation system is described. Unlike past accreditation methods, which focused on the facilities or institutional characteristics, Quality Performance Accreditation accredits schools based on student performance. Through the accreditation process, the state will establish the same high…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Community Involvement
Organizational Structures and Interpersonal Relations: Policy Implications for Schools Reaching Out.
Zeldin, Shepherd – 1990
Based on visits to 11 schools in 6 urban areas across the country, this article describes the perspectives and behavioral responses of school staff to "reaching out" policies that lead schools to form partnerships with parents and community organizations for the purpose of enhancing children's development and academic achievement. All of…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Community Involvement, Educational Change, Educational Policy
McBride, Pamela G.; And Others – 1992
This program guide documents a custodial job family curriculum that develops competence in generic work force education skills through business writing/clerical skills and reading and writing courses. An annotated table of contents lists a brief description of the questions answered in each section. An introduction presents a program abstract and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Business Communication, Business Skills, Classroom Techniques
Caverly, David C.; And Others – 1992
This program guide documents an equipment operator's job family curriculum that develops competence in generic work force education skills through Commercial Driver's License minicourses. An annotated table of contents lists a brief description of the questions answered in each section. An introduction presents a program abstract and a guide…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Certification, Classroom Techniques
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. – 1993
This second interim report presents evaluation results from Project Youth Experiencing Success (YES) and documents a decrease in the Virginia statewide event-dropout rate in grades 7 through 12 from 4.8 percent during the 1988-89 school year to 3.3 percent during the 1991-92 year. Event-dropout rates measure the proportion of students who drop out…
Descriptors: Ability, At Risk Persons, Case Studies, College School Cooperation
Kober, Nancy – 1994
This report synthesizes the presentations and discussions from a 1993 symposium on comprehensive school health and safety into a blueprint for urban action. The first part of the report summarizes the nature of health and safety problems in urban schools and discusses some of the barriers that hinder integrated solutions. The second part describes…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Involvement, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Finance
Idaho State Dept. of Education, Boise. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1990
An Idaho task force of Hispanic Americans, industry representatives, and education leaders studied the reasons Hispanic students were not enrolling in and completing vocational education programs. The task force sponsored a series of community meetings to identify reasons and solutions. Approximately 40-60 parents, students, and other interested…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Community Involvement, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
Cassara, Beverly Benner – 1991
A growing trend in social science research is to reject those modes that treat individuals as objects of research and to accept the role of catalyst in helping the people to do their own research. Also, there is an increasing demand that results of social research must serve in a timely way to improve the situation of those involved. Participatory…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Citizen Participation
Rivera, Manuel G. – 1983
A study of Hispanic participation in administration of the 106 California community colleges (administered through district organizations) counted persons with Spanish surnames listed in the "Directory of California Community Colleges 1981-82" as participating in administration at district or college level. Hispanic administrators were…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Selection, Administrators, Affirmative Action
Ingram, E. J.; McIntosh, R. G. – 1983
The 3-part companion volume to the final report of the Education North Evaluation Project serves as a policy development resource book for anyone who must address questions of school-community relations. Part I focuses on the educational issues of concern to policy makers and their advisors in very remote, interracial, poor northern communities.…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Community Characteristics, Community Involvement
Preston, James C.; Halton, Katherine B. – 1981
To help increase leader effectiveness in planning and implementing local action projects, the booklet presents discussion and examples of the nature and characteristics of planned community action leading to community development. The booklet first explains why leaders should be involved with community action and then gives abstracts of seven…
Descriptors: Arts Centers, Child Development Centers, Community Action, Community Centers
Keehn, Martha, Ed. – 1982
The manual is addressed to nutrition and health educators interested in trying out new participatory ways of working at the community level and describes simple techniques to train field staff to approach local communities more sensitively and involve them more fully in achieving better health. Techniques and materials are all experiential and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Community Health Services
Epskamp, Kees P. – 1982
A 13-day workshop was conducted in Nigeria to train 60 community development workers in the educational use of popular theater for community-based adult education. Key goals were conscientization (a gradual learning process in which people look critically at their social situation to gain deeper understanding of the root causes of their problems)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audience Participation, Case Studies, Change Agents
Jardine, Douglas K. – 1990
When a college is held in high esteem by the important and prominent leaders in the larger community, that community can be counted on in times of need or crisis. Therefore, community involvement, though clearly a high moral imperative, also grows out of the college's enlightened self-interest. In an effort to increase involvement in and with the…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Community Involvement, Curriculum Design
Gaustad, Joan – 1990
An increase in gang violence and mobility in the last 20 years has alarmed members of the public school community. Gang membership, formation, location, and growth are described. Strategies to counteract gang activity, such as school discipline policies, school and community prevention programs, information sharing networks, and state legislation,…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Community Action, Community Coordination, Community Involvement
