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Arts, Education, and Americans, Inc., New York, NY. – 1980
This monograph stresses the importance of art education in elementary and secondary schools and explains how school/community partnership in the arts can help keep arts education programs alive. Part of a series containing background information on arts programs in schools, this document is intended to aid individuals and school art advocacy…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Education, Artists, Case Studies
Pinson, Nancy; And Others – 1980
Guidance and vocational education personnel have continued to play key roles in responding to individual and societal needs that have arisen as a result of the occupational, social, and economic changes occurring over the last 80 years. Guidance programs serve as the link between providing occupational training and employment readiness for the…
Descriptors: Counselor Role, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs, Energy Conservation
GORDON, SOL – 1967
VARIOUS ATTEMPTS TO IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL QUALITY IN GHETTO SCHOOLS HAVE FAILED. THE FACT THAT A FEW ALL BLACK SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL MERELY INDICATES THAT SEGREGATION OR FAMILY BACKGROUND MAY NOT BE THE MAJOR CAUSES OF GHETTO SCHOOL FAILURE. HOWEVER, A MEANINGFUL SCHOOL EXPERIENCE FOR THE GHETTO CHILD WILL NOT BE PROVIDED UNTIL THE ONUS OF…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Administrator Role, Black Organizations, Community Involvement
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Bureau of Intergroup Relations. – 1977
The document summarizes proceedings from two conferences which addressed multicultural realities in American life. Intended as a means of expanding multicultural understandings of elementary and secondary teachers, the conferences encouraged exchange of ideas between parents, community members, curriculum specialists, administrators, educators,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Conference Reports, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
National Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1976
This book contains 29 articles for elementary and secondary teachers dealing with fundamental concepts and teaching techniques in values education. Part one of the book deals with concepts. Louis E. Raths examines valuing and its relationship to freedom and intelligence. The cognitive developmental approach to moral education is discussed by…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Essays
Katz, Lilian G.; And Others – 1977
This paper reviews the theory and research related to the sex role socialization of young children, specifically addressing a range of theoretical and practical issues related to the implementation of the Women's Educational Equity Act. Section I examines the influence of the family on children's sex role development, focusing on differentiated…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Birth Order, Early Childhood Education, Employed Parents
Blackman, Julie – 1975
A brief review of a school system in Alum Rock, California that uses the voucher, this paper focuses on an educational strategy intended to maximize the school's responsiveness to the expressed needs of the parents. The ideas and values underlying the development of the voucher school, the problems of operationalization, as these are said to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Experiments, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Improvement
Williams, Trevor – 1975
Educational attainments are seen as the link between the status attainments of one generation and those of the next. Most of the apparent opportunity inequalities are thought to reside in those processes leading to the social origins - educational attainment relationships -- that is, in families, in schools, or in both. The present investigation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
New York City Youth Board, NY. – 1975
The recommendations resulting from the Community Conference are contained in this document. The conference focuses on the concept of community schools and its applicability to New York City. The concept involves expanding the use of schools as locations for voluntary activities and community service programs which serve not only the student…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Community Control, Community Responsibility, Community Role
Foxworthy, Nancy M. – 1976
Some of the schooling experiences of a rapidly expanding migrant population from the Dominican Republic are described in this paper. In doing this, the paper examines the societal and organizational context of the educational system in the Dominican Republic, and briefly outlines the organization of and practices in Dominican classrooms, the…
Descriptors: Dominicans, Educational Anthropology, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1976
One of six introductory modules in a 22-module series designed to train vocational education curriculum specialists (VECS), this guide is intended for use by both instructor and student in a variety of education environments, including independent study, team teaching, seminars, and workshops, as well as in more conventional classroom settings.…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Colleges, Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems
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Forbes, David – Journal of Education, 1987
The recent drug scare has intensified some programs' social control functions. Through drug abuse prevention programs in particular, schools have encouraged the accumulation of social skills as a means to ensure success, and they have increasingly applied authoritarian sanctions along with psychological manipulations in an attempt to regulate…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Dialogs (Language), Discussion (Teaching Technique), Drug Abuse
Jimerson, Lorna – Rural School and Community Trust, 2006
Across the country, states are pushing to close their small rural schools with the mistaken hope of saving money, in spite of overwhelming evidence that smaller schools are beneficial for students, and that they frequently function as the glue that binds together small communities, serving as their economic and social hub. The battle is even more…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Schools, Individualized Instruction, Class Size
Brigaman, Katie J. – 2002
This handbook is for teachers and administrators involved with international students in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) and mainstream settings. It is intended to raise awareness of the new American classroom. It focuses on how to welcome students, how to make adaptations, and where to locate resources and support information. Section 1,…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Blacks, Consciousness Raising, Cultural Awareness
Fulton, Kathleen – 2000
Recent studies suggest that less than half of the nation's teacher preparation institutions require students to design and deliver instruction using technology, and even fewer require technology use during student teaching. The School Technology and Readiness (STaR) Chart for schools, colleges, and departments of education (SCDEs) was designed to…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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