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Servetter, Leonard, Comp. – 1973
This book describes the year-round school program of Chula Vista City School District. It begins with a discussion of the planning that occurred prior to the implementation of the program that includes descriptions of the problem, the legislation needed, and school relations with teachers and parents. The second section examines the first year of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Legislation, Elementary Schools, Program Descriptions
Download full textShepard, Morris A.; And Others – 1975
This report is intended to complement a much briefer companion volume, "A Research Agenda for Year-Round Schools: Executive Summary." Together both volumes fully describe the second phase of a national study of year-round schools (YRS) that was initially begun by the National Council of Year-Round Education in 1975. The bulk of this…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Case Studies, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Office of Program Planning and Development. – 1975
This handbook is designed to aid school districts that are considering either implementing a year-round program for the first time or improving and expanding an existing year-round program. The handbook is organized in 11 chapters that discuss the following topics: introduction to the year-round school, reorganizing the school calendar, adopting…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Attendance Records, Bibliographies, Case Studies
Shepard, Morris A.; Baker, Keith – 1977
The purpose of this book is to provide information about year-round schools (YRS) to those thinking about YRS as an educational option for their communities. The book includes a concise history of YRS and case studies of communities that have ventured to change their school calendars. The authors discuss some of the issues that a change to YRS…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Educational Attitudes, Educational Finance
Grisham, Dana L. – 1995
The research described in this paper was conducted over a 4-year period at Orangecrest Elementary School, a new school in a Southern California urban district, which adopted Integrated Thematic Instruction (ITI) at its inception. ITI, developed by Susan Kovalik, is a tightly structured program based on the idea of year-long themes which are broken…
Descriptors: Awards, Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Design
Donato, Ruben – 1997
Challenging conventional wisdom that Mexican Americans were passive victims of their educational fates, this book examines the Mexican American struggle for equal education during the 1960s and 1970s in a California community "Brownfield." It looks at responses of a predominantly White school system and community to the growing number of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Activism, Bilingual Education, Case Studies
