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Smith, Laveta Johnson, Ed.
This manual was prepared for school administrators and staff in Illinois school districts. Following a statement of the rationale for preparing the manual, a section on discriminatory legislation discusses Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Public Law 19-597 of Illinois. The next section discusses sex role stereotyping in classroom…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Guides, Content Analysis, Discriminatory Legislation
Watson, John F.; Winograd, Kathy; Kalmon, Stevan – Learning Point Associates / North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL), 2004
Online learning holds promise for providing new educational opportunities to a wide range of students across the country. The rapid expansion of K-12 online learning, however, threatens to outpace the development of appropriate state-level policies that serve to fulfill the promise. As the National Association of State Boards of Education warned…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Policy, State Legislation
Neckerman, Kathryn M. – University of Chicago Press, 2007
The problems commonly associated with inner-city schools were not nearly as pervasive a century ago, when black children in most northern cities attended school alongside white children. In "Schools Betrayed", her innovative history of race and urban education, Kathryn M. Neckerman tells the story of how and why these schools came to…
Descriptors: African American Children, African American Community, Academic Failure, Outcomes of Education
Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 1998
This report discusses the development of a citizens' agenda for higher education in Illinois, presenting a set of initial goals and the reasoning behind them. It reviews the importance of higher education for a productive citizenry and the economic benefits of higher education. The report proposes eight goals that are designed to increase the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, College School Cooperation, Educational Improvement
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1977
In order to analyze the California system of community college finance within a national context, a review of recent literature was followed by an intensive study and survey of eight states, chosen to illustrate alternative solutions to California financing problems. National trends among community colleges that emerged included (1) the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Educational Trends, Equal Education
Kozol, Jonathan – 1991
This book examines what is happening, in the context of segregated and unequal public education, to children from poor families in the inner cities and less affluent suburbs, and describes how children of poor families get less real education, less hope, and less concern than children from rich families. Chapter 1 of the book examines the causes…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Child Welfare, Disadvantaged Schools, Economically Disadvantaged
Illinois State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Springfield. Advisory Committee on School Finance. – 1973
This report concentrates on the equity problem in Illinois public school finance. Central to this report is the thesis that there are three basic strategies for attacking the equity problem: make adjustments in the existing "foundation level" grant-in-aid system, abandon the "foundation" idea for a grant-in-aid system, and…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Educational Finance, Educational Opportunities
Lindstrom, Duane – 1975
This is a report prepared by the Illinois Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. It deals with how local, state and federal officials, as well as private individuals and groups, have dealt with Cairo, Illinois' racial and economic problems. The areas addressed are employment, housing, health, and law enforcement. It…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Black Education, Black Employment, Black Housing
Illinois Community Coll. Board, Springfield. – 1989
Since the enactment of state legislation designed to address the underrepresentation of minorities, women, and the handicapped, Illinois institutions of higher education have developed many programs to address this problem. These efforts include a range of approaches from those focusing primarily on motivating students and strengthening their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Community Colleges
Sexton, Patricia Cayo – 1966
The major issue in urban education is class conflict. The polarity of the "haves" and "have-nots" limits the schools' services to the latter group because of the generally moderate stance of most liberal school board members and their insufficient zeal in pressing the grievances of the have-nots. Bureaucratic resistance and the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Board of Education Role, Bureaucracy, Conflict
Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 1998
This report presents policies to enhance academic preparation and progress, assist needy students, and keep college costs affordable in Illinois, and indicates the implementation status of these policies. These policies are designed to heighten awareness among students and families of the effect of academic preparation and sustained academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Acceleration (Education), Access to Education
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. – 1988
This report provides a policy framework for specific programs that will improve the achievement of minority students in the Illinois educational system. All levels of education from pre-kindergarten through graduate education must be involved in designing and making such programs work. Education is the key element that can enable minorities to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Early Childhood Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Improvement
Governor's Commission on Schools, Springfield, IL. – 1972
This report presents an analysis of Illinois' present educational finance system and makes recommendations for future legislation to improve the system. The report discusses (1) State constitutional provisions, (2) the present tax structure and alternative taxing methods, (3) proposed distribution formulas and equalization methods, (4) financing…
Descriptors: Bond Issues, Bus Transportation, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Finance
Lipman, Pauline – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2005
This paper examines the changing nature of metroregions and their schools. It discusses the influence of global neo-liberalism and resistance on processes of social differentiation through case studies of Chicago metroregion communities and schools. Using spatial theory, the paper argues that while the restructuring of metroregions creates…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cultural Pluralism, Equal Education, Social Justice
Lynn, Mary Ann; And Others – 1983
A pilot study addressed the economic issue in vocational education as it relates to the wealth and size of school districts. Examined during the study were nine high schools and nine unit districts that fell into three subgroups based on wealth and enrollment. Data were gathered from public records as well as from school business managers and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Curriculum, Economic Status, Educational Equipment