This brief uses data collected by the Manchester Health Department in 2013 and analyzed by the Carsey School of Public Policy in the Bakersville, Beech Street, and Gossler Park neighborhoods in Manchester, New Hampshire, to provide information about how barriers to various dimensions of well-being differ by place and also across race/ethnicity,…

The School Health Profiles (Profiles) is a system of surveys assessing school health policies and practices in states, large urban school districts, and territories. Profiles surveys are conducted biennially by education and health agencies among middle and high school principals and lead health education teachers. Profiles monitors the current…

The Carol M. White Physical Education Program (PEP) provides grants to districts and community-based organizations (CBOs) to initiate, expand, and improve physical education for students in kindergarten through grade 12. In 2010, the U.S. Department of Education issued new regulations for PEP that included the following: (1) requiring grantees to…

As well as describing the present state of development of community schools in the province of Alberta, this study also examined the organizational and environmental characteristics of Alberta community school education programs. Questionnaires were completed by 93 school administrators, 462 teachers and 1,110 community members. Interviews were…

School districts in Michigan wishing to implement community school programs have access to state grant moneys. Analysis of questionnaires sent to Michigan's school superintendents in 1977 revealed that those whose districts participated in the grant program supported more fully and their districts followed more closely the definition of the…

Learning in community schools is not solely book learning but is practical and related to the environment. Some related assumptions are that the school can be an instrument of social change and the community is the teaching laboratory. Case studies of some community schools in the United States, the Philippines, and Africa indicate that they…

Traditional school systems do not develop in individuals the capacities for cooperation, struggle, autonomy, and judgment appropriate for exercising citizenship in a democratic society. Rather, schools go to extraordinary lengths to alienate youth from effective participation in the adult world. Community schools, on the other hand, reject the…

A conference entitled "The Schoolhouse in the City" was convened at Stanford University, July 10-14, 1967. Sponsored by Stanford's School Planning Laboratory and supported by Educational Facilities Laboratories and the U. S. Office of Education, the conference brought together as speakers leading figures in local, state, and federal government,…

The catalog of Authorized Subjects for Community Adult Schools, 1969-70 Revision, contains descriptions of courses which have been approved for scheduling, and lists applicable prerequisites, grade levels, the number of high school credits that may be earned, and community adult school graduate requirements and curricula. The community adult…

The trend toward community use of school space is influenced by the financial wisdom of extending the use of large, centrally located, and well-equipped, public buildings. When more services can share the same facility, taxpayer savings are greater and community access is easier. Different approaches that communities and educators have taken to…

A 55-item questionnaire was distributed to all of the Community School Programs in Michigan which were partially reimbursed by the State in 1975-76. Ninety-eight percent of the questionnaires were returned. Thirteen components existed in over 90% of the programs and are considered to be necessary for a viable Community School Program. The results…

Explored from Herefordshire are the drawbacks as well as the virtues of rural schooling. (Editor)

This report presents the testimony of the president and program director of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Based in Washington, DC and in Dayton, the Institute is a nonprofit organization that supports research, publications, and action projects of national significance in elementary/secondary reform, as well as significant education reform…

This paper examines the environmental impacts of replacing the Bison, South Dakota School District's elementary and high school heating system consisting of oil-fired boilers, and supporting electrical components with a new coal-fired boiler and supporting control system piping. Various alternative systems are also examined, including purchasing a…