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Download full textHart, Elinor, Ed. – 1981
This is a guide for organizing Adopt-A-School programs, partnerships between schools and businesses or agencies in the community. The program currently underway in Washington, D.C., is described, and program goals including career awareness and improved attendance are outlined. Procedures and criteria for sponsoring organizations…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Career Awareness, Community Involvement, Community Programs
Garman, Keats; Hunter, Carolyn – 1978
This booklet is for people who are involved in community affairs, either as direct participants, group facilitators, or agency sponsors. The booklet discusses the reasons for considering a community survey and provides tips on how to prepare for a survey. Groups that have decided to write and conduct their own survey have the following major…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Involvement, Community Surveys
EPIC, Inc., Tallahassee, FL. – 1977
Designed to survey parent and community members, this instrument was developed and validated by the Educational Progress in Careers (EPIC) project to evaluate career, economic, and community education programs in Florida Schools. The instrument is divided into the following parts: (a) community attitudes; (b) community facility and program needs;…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Education, Community Involvement, Economics Education
Evenson, Jill S.; Cook, Judy Thompson – 1979
A national survey of Experience Based Career Education (EBCE) programs was conducted to determine the extent to which one model of a career development program, EBCE, is meeting the needs of handicapped students and to create awareness of this information among educators and program developers. Responses were obtained for 173 programs. Five types…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Involvement, Demography, Disabilities
Handler, Leslie; And Others – 1978
An evaluation was conducted of the Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) program at the end of its second year of implementation. Evaluation data were collected in the following ways: regular meetings with project staff; on-site observations of program activities; results from pre and posttesting students; inspection…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Community Involvement, Experiential Learning
Fowler, Floyd J., Jr.; And Others – 1979
The Hartford project, an experimental effort to reduce residential burglary, street robberies, and fear of those crimes in an urban residential neighborhood, is described. Its most distinctive feature is its integrative approach in which police, community organization, and physical design changes were used to increase the willingness and ability…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Programs, Crime, Neighborhood Improvement
National PTA, Chicago, IL. – 1979
The National PTA Urban Task Force chose to focus on three issues facing urban education: inadequate financing of public education, lack of parental or broad-based community participation in schools, and youth unemployment. The Task Force identified coalition building at local and national levels as the best strategy for helping resolve the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Australian Coll. of Education, Carlton, Victoria. – 1977
This book is a compilation of 16 speeches given at a 1977 conference in Adelaide, Australia on the theme of community education. Topics covered include definitions and meanings of community education, the relationship between schools and the community, and the role of teachers in school-community relationships. The final chapters discuss community…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Education, Community Involvement, Community Schools
LONG, CHARLES M. – 1966
TO HELP COLLEGE GRADUATES WITH NO PREVIOUS PREPARATION FOR TEACHING TO QUALIFY AS TEACHERS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN DEPRESSED AREAS OF NEW YORK CITY, THIRTY TO FORTY STUDENTS ARE ADMITTED EACH YEAR TO A NEW TWO-STAGE, 48-CREDIT, GRADUATE PROGRAM OF TRAINING LEADING TO THE M.S. IN EDUCATION. STUDENTS ARE SELECTED ON THE BASIS OF ACADEMIC…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Role, Disadvantaged Schools, Disadvantaged Youth
Oakland Unified School District, CA. – 1964
PROJECT GOALS INCLUDED CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT IN PROGRAMS FOR NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY BETTERMENT AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH AND ADULTS. EMPHASIS WAS PLACED ON INVOLVING MINORITY GROUP PARENTS TO A DEGREE NEVER BEFORE ATTEMPTED. ADULT EDUCATION CLASSES AND PARENT DISCUSSION AND ACTIVITY GROUPS…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Child Development, Community Involvement
ROBIN, FLORENCE – 1963
SOUTHERN COMMUNITIES ARE IN A PERIOD OF TRANSITION TOWARD AN INTEGRATED SOCIETY. IT IS THE CHOICE OF EVERY COMMUNITY WHETHER OR NOT THIS TRANSITION WILL EVOLVE PEACEFULLY OR WHETHER IT WILL BE RESISTED WITH VIOLENT AND TRAGIC RESULTS. IF THE DECISION FOR A PEACEFUL TRANSITION IS MADE, EXAMPLES OF SUCCESSFUL TECHNIQUES, EXPERIENCES, AND EFFORTS IN…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Committees, Community Involvement, Desegregation Effects
Nicholes, Daniel R. – 1979
A report of community opinions about responsible citizenship in seven Pennsylvania school districts is presented. The document is organized into three parts. Part I, a description of four community citizenship committee models, outlines the criteria which participating school districts considered in forming their committees. Committees chose to…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Citizenship Education, Community Involvement, Educational Objectives
Crossley, John – 1980
Commercialized approaches to public recreation may solve the financial and budgetary problems that many public recreation programs currently face. Case studies document the success of some commercialized approaches, including: (1) borrowing techniques from business and commercial recreation programs; (2) creating revenue producing facilities and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Involvement, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems
Interinstitutional Consortium for Career Education, Salem, OR. – 1978
Designed for use by local education agencies, this handbook develops a twelve step process that facilitates the planning and development of comprehensive career education programs. The twelve steps are (1) involve administrators, teachers, and counselors; (2) involve the school board; (3) select a district career education coordinator; (4) inform…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Career Education, Community Involvement
Harty, Harold; Smith, Bonnie – 1976
Attempts have been made to show relationships between the constructs of self concept and acceptance of others in a variety of social contexts. This study was concerned with statistical relationships between self concept and acceptance of others on the part of two randomly selected groups of prospective teachers before and after a field experience;…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Elementary School Teachers, Higher Education, Multicultural Education
