Examines collaboration between schools and nonprofit community-based organizations and its impact on dropout prevention programing and staff-student relations. The study is part of a 3-year longitudinal evaluation of the New York City Attendance Improvement Dropout Prevention program at 6 of 29 city middle schools implementing the collaboration.…

Proposes using student projects to show students how mathematics can be applied to their lives by using statistics. Students identify a topic of interest to them and their community, collect data, discuss the analyzed data in a written report, and present the reports at the local senior-citizen center. (MDH)

Evaluation after two years of Project RAISE, a multifaceted program with seven community sponsors in the large Baltimore (Maryland) school district, indicates the effectiveness of using community adults as advocates and mentors in improving student attendance and some report card grades, but not promotion rates or standardized test scores. (SLD)

Three years after the passage of the Chicago Public Schools Reform Act, Stephen K. Hayt School in Chicago (Illinois) has shown some successes, but neighborhood politics have hampered progress as ethnic groups and others dispute issues. In addition, cuts in the citywide school budget left teachers scrambling for supplies. (JB)

Describes changes that must be made within and outside of the school district to achieve urban school improvement. Successful improvement must involve support from the local, state, and federal governments, parents, and local neighborhoods. Within the district, there must be changes at the district, building, and classroom levels. (SM)

Discusses the creation of policies in higher education to integrate new technology. Highlights include integrating campus and community, including electronic mail use; redefining teaching and learning, including interdisciplinary organization; allaying fears of faculty, staff, and students; and managing with professional tools and methods,…

Examines the development and implementation of a school compact program in the Detroit (Michigan) Public School System. Demonstrates its initiation by corporate leaders; and highlights some issues faced by elected officials, schools, and the community while making compact agreements. Problems still faced by the Detroit Compact are reviewed. (SLD)

Discusses implications for teacher education of Cummins' theoretical framework for analyzing minority students' school failure. Researchers adapted a multicultural education course, then surveyed student attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors toward minority children before and after taking the course. The course produced increased cultural sensitivity…

To enhance reform under the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), the University of Louisville has initiated the Housing and Neighborhood Development Strategies (HANDS) project linking education reform with the Louisville community. HANDS is an innovative and pragmatic partnership of businesses, government, universities, the school system, and…

Explains how land conditions and local land ownership patterns have contributed to the educational change that left a rural, primarily African-American town in North Carolina without its own school. The town's history, largely interpreted by one elderly African-American man, shows how economic structures have evolved over the past century. (SLD)

Describes an integrated schoolwide project at a California high school in which students learned real-world technology skills and workplace etiquette by working together to create a multimedia CD-ROM project, in the form of a quilt, that described local history. Student teams, scheduling changes, teacher roles, community judging, and student…

Describes the West Vancouver (British Columbia) School Board's goals related to the appropriate and effective use of information technology as both a school and a community resource. Highlights include social issues, learning issues, professional and personal competencies for teacher-librarians, integration of information delivery systems, and a…

Gives information on how Duke University (North Carolina), Purdue University (Indiana), Severn School (Maryland), Spelman College (Georgia), Syracuse University (New York), University of California/Los Angeles, and University of Massachusetts/Amherst structure their corporate relationships, including program administration, staff, number of…

Dean of International University Learning Center (Kyoto, Japan) argues that traditional educational systems disregard developmental needs of children and prevent change by perpetuating societal values. The idea that children need to develop as an integral part of their natural and social systems is discussed in relation to alternative education…

Provides an overview of the Cities in Schools (CIS) organization and its school-based service delivery model that focuses on reducing problem outcomes for at-risk youth. Findings from a multiyear evaluation that documented the characteristics of youth who participate in CIS programs are presented, and CIS components to support school safety are…