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Howell, Keith; And Others – 1991
School Health Advisory Councils (SHAC) can assist schools in carrying out their responsibilities for promoting and protecting the health of students and employees. An active SHAC can be an excellent mechanism for parent and community involvement in the schools, and the SHAC provides a way for the schools to utilize valuable professional resources…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Child Health, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Education
Zenke, Larry L. – 1983
The Superintendent of Schools reports factual information about and briefly describes accomplishments of the Tulsa Public Schools to enable the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce to assess the status of the schools vis-a-vis the Report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education. Recent scores of students on national…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Administration, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Office of Program Evaluation and Research. – 1986
This final report constitutes the culmination of findings and recommendations of a series of working papers on a project which conducted a cooperative study of existing student study team (SST) processes in nine California special education local plan areas. The project is thought to be the first in the nation to describe the characteristics of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intervention
Drumtra, Jeff; Melville, Keith – 1985
Appropriate for secondary school social studies or community programs, this publication considers the issue of taxation in America. The first of five sections, "Taxing Matters," considers the growing perception that the present tax code is unfair and in need of drastic reform. Alternative solutions to the problem are considered. "The Loophole…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizen Participation, Finance Reform, Instructional Materials
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Carraway, Clyde L.; And Others – 1987
Evaluation criteria and a rating scale are provided for administrators, professional staff, and community representatives who want to assess school arts programs. These criteria may also be used to generate information to establish program goals, plan inservice programs, or plan and evaluate state and federal programs. Criteria are established…
Descriptors: Art Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy
Manatt, Marsha – 1983
This book traces the progress of the parent movement for drug-free youth, and describes a set of varied approaches to drug problems. Chapter 1 focuses on the actions of the city of Atlanta, Georgia in confronting drug problems and shows how that initial parent activism contained the seeds of the current national movement. Chapter 2 documents the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Organizations, Drug Abuse, Drug Education
Gonzalez, Josue M. – Agenda, 1981
This report answers questions commonly asked about bilingual education in the United States, by persons who may be puzzled and wish to have more information. The questions addressed are: (1) What exactly is bilingual education and why is it so important to Hispanics? (2) Other immigrant groups of the past did not need bilingual education. Why is…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship
Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity International, Washington, DC. – 1981
This guide provides assistance to the lawyer who has volunteered to help a law-related education project by soliciting supplementary funds from local business, civic, or other sources. Specifically, the guide offers guidance in identifying and approaching potential donors, preparing the request for funds, and organizing supporting data and…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Community Services, Community Support, Donors
Melville, Keith, Ed. – 1983
Although designed for participants in the National Issues Forum, this booklet, which describes the impact of the federal deficit and the federal budget process, is also useful for secondary school social studies. The six sections begin with an introduction describing why the deficit grows yearly and why it is difficult for Congress to stop its…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizen Participation, Decision Making, Economics
Jehl, Jeanne – 1977
This guide presents a model for developing a team planning approach for optimum community involvement in San Diego City Schools in order to promote quality integrated education. Following a brief introduction basic purposes, goals, and tasks for implementation are listed. Next, the model is outlined as a step-by-step process. For each major topic…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Human Relations Programs
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Selwood, H. John – History and Social Science Teacher, 1984
A diagrammatic model that illustrates the nature of urban growth processes and their resultant physical form is presented. The model can be used to describe attributes of urban form in the preindustrial city or to provide a framework for studying contemporary patterns of development. (RM)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Models, Physical Geography
Hassel, Bryan; Lin, Margaret – 2001
As the charter-school option has expanded across the country, contracting for educational management services is an increasingly available and attractive choice for charter-school governing boards and founding groups. To make contractual relationships work well, charter-school boards need to strike an effective balance between fulfilling their…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administration, Administrative Organization, Charter Schools
Duke, Daniel L., Ed. – Spotlight on New Learning Environments: A Journal of the Thomas Jefferson Center for Educational Design at the University of Virginia, 1998
A two-issue volume presents articles describing innovative schools, classrooms, and alternative learning arrangements found in some of today's schools. Issue one contains three articles offering glimpses of an elementary school committed to the Core Knowledge curriculum of E. D. Hirsch, a renovated school devoted to early childhood learning…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Core Curriculum, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Council for Exceptional Children, Arlington, VA. – 2002
This annual publication describes programs funded under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and gifted legislation and presents the Council for Exceptional Children's (CEC's) recommendations concerning funding levels for these programs in fiscal year 2003. The Council's major recommendation is for legislation that guarantees…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Div. of School Facilities Planning. – 1997
The California Department of Education, directed to formalize regulations governing standards for new school design and construction, has prepared a guide to help school districts develop specifications based on the architectural principle that form follows function. This guide discusses the meaning of educational specifications and their…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Facilities Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
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