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Turner, Susan; Fain, Terry; Sehgal, Amber – RAND Corporation, 2007
In 2000, the California State Legislature passed the Schiff-Cardenas Crime Prevention Act, which authorized funding for county juvenile justice programs and designated the Corrections Standards Authority (CSA), formerly named the Board of Corrections, the administrator of funding. California counties receiving state funds for Juvenile Justice…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Intervention, Crime, Crime Prevention
Liu, Amy – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2007
This bibliography provides an overview of recent scholarship on female community college presidents. A significant and growing number of women are serving as community college presidents. Specifically, there has been an increase in women community college presidents from 11% in 1991 to nearly 28% in 2001. With more women holding presidencies at…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Women Administrators, Females, Community Colleges
Kennedy, Robert L.; And Others – 1986
A suspension school for secondary students, established in the 1977-78 school year in an Arkansas school district has developed specific program goals and procedures. Following a discussion of the school's origins, this paper describes operating procedures, philosophy, support system, and student reaction. Suspensions declined considerably through…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Community Involvement, Cooperative Programs, Discipline Policy

Kolodin, Aleksandr – Russian Education and Society, 1996
Characterizes many civic councils (a combination parent-teacher organization and school board) as bureaucratic and unproductive. Profiles a council governing a Moscow suburban school that has been innovative and effective. Discusses the financial and administrative initiatives developed in conjunction with the school principal. (MJP)
Descriptors: Capitalism, Citizens Councils, Community Schools, Educational Administration
Volkwein, J. Fredericks; And Others – 1993
A study of campus crime trends from 1974 to 1990 examines the relationships between campus crime and college characteristics. The research drew on merged national databases containing federal crime statistics, community demographic data, and campus characteristics. The results show that campus rates of both violent crime and property crime are…
Descriptors: Campuses, Colleges, Community Characteristics, Community Influence
Elias, Robert; Woodbridge, Michael P. – 1984
Over 1,200 references are cited in this bibliography of literature representing two major areas of citizen participation: community organizing and grassroots participation. Materials, most of which were published between 1970 and the present, deal mainly with local citizen activism that operates both inside and outside normal government channels.…
Descriptors: Activism, Change Strategies, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education
Hall, Barbara Ann – 1988
A data-collection model is presented for the gathering of timely information on population demographic characteristics, as well as economic, educational, environmental, and social trends. First, the paper discusses the importance of anticipating internal and external changes and establishing priorities for resource allocation in the design of a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Surveys, Data Collection, Demography
Milburn, Lonna; And Others – 1985
To examine what changes occurred in the acute health care delivery systems of rural Texas energy impact communities from 1978 to 1983, a retrospective survey was used to acquire data from which a database could be generated that could provide information for community and state policy decisions. From a pool of communities chosen by a panel of…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Community Change, Community Characteristics, Delivery Systems
Leffler, Ann; And Others – 1984
A 1983 four-community survey of 220 rural Utah households had as its central analysis issue the extent to which conflict plays a modulating role in linking network positions. Not only do most network analysis approaches reflect an implicit assumption that network ties involving conflict are mutually exclusive from and incompatible with support…
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Study, Conflict, Field Interviews

Goode, Judith – Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 1990
Describes the relationships between immigrants and established residents in one community in Philadelphia that is being affected by economic restructuring and suburbanization of wealth. A paradigm of host-guest relationship has emerged as established residents attempt to assert social control over newcomers with often higher educational levels and…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Ethnic Bias, Ethnic Relations
Academy for Educational Development, 2008
"Partnerships for College Access and Success: A Technical Assistance Guide, Toolkit and Resource Guide" reflects lessons learned from four years of planning, implementation and evaluation work through the Partnerships for College Access and Success (PCAS) initiative. It is the result of the collaboration between AED (Academy for Educational…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Postsecondary Education, School Holding Power, Technical Assistance
Gaziano, Cecilie – 1982
Focusing on knowledge of four public affairs issues important to residents of a Midwestern inner-city neighborhood, a study examined the relative contributions to knowledge made by two neighborhood newspapers and by organized community group activities. A sample of 239 residents was asked open-ended questions about housing, crime, economic…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Attitudes, Community Organizations, Content Analysis
Lee, Bill E. – 1987
This study was undertaken to determine the perceptions of a wide range of citizens and to inform the Mississippi Legislature on the issue of merit pay in education. From each of 50 randomly selected Mississippi school districts, a representation of grades K through 12 was chosen, with all professional and administrative staff members asked to…
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Administrators, Attitude Measures, Community Attitudes
Gastright, Joseph F. – 1987
In 1985 and 1986, 24 and 37 schools respectively, were publicly recognized as merit schools under the Design for School Excellence (DSE) program of the Cincinnati (Ohio) Public School system. The increase in merit schools was not accompanied by a large increase in the number of awards made on individual indicators. Rather, the new merit schools…
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Beaulieu, Lionel J.; Molnar, Joseph J. – 1984
Findings from current literature form the basis for this examination of five critical elements of change and development within the local community setting which impact on agriculture: population, employment, land, water, and environment. Renewed rural population growth during the 1970's has reversed small farm trends but placed strains on local…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Community Change, Community Development, Employment Opportunities