NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing 481 to 495 of 1,523 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Shatkin, Gavin; Gershberg, Alec Ian – Urban Education, 2007
This article builds and explores the hypothesis that parent and community participation in school governance can have positive impacts on community development by fostering improvements in school performance and school-community relations and by acting as a catalyst for collective action around community-development issues. It does so through case…
Descriptors: Community Development, Parent Participation, Community Involvement, School Based Management
Harvard Family Research Project, 2011
Out-of-school time (OST) programs focused on older youth--specifically, youth in middle and high school--can help participants successfully navigate their adolescence and learn new skills well into their teens. OST programs can also help prepare older youth for a variety of new roles that they will assume as they enter college and the workforce.…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Mentors, After School Programs, Databases
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Derby, Dustin C. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
Men's alcohol expectancies are an important cognitive-behavioral component of their consumption; yet, sparse research details such behaviors for men in two-year colleges. Selected for inclusion with the current study were 563 men from seven Illinois community colleges. Logistic regression analysis indicated four significant, positive relationships…
Descriptors: Drinking, Males, Community Colleges, College Students
Stephan, Jennifer L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Nearly all high school seniors plan college, but many low-income students do not enroll. Moreover, among students who do enroll, low-income students often pursue less dependable college pathways. While research typically focuses on college cost and academic preparation as explanations of socioeconomic differences in enrollment outcomes, other…
Descriptors: High Schools, Community Colleges, Income, Definitions
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Hayes, Worth Kamili – American Educational History Journal, 2010
Education played a pivotal role in African-Americans' post-World War II struggle for equality. Many activists believed that victories against racially discriminatory school systems would lead to gains in other critical areas. By examining Howalton Day School, a black private school on Chicago's South Side in operation from 1946-1986, this article…
Descriptors: Public Education, African Americans, Role of Education, Social Justice
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Coyle, Kevin; Flynn, Maria – Community College Journal, 2010
The emerging green economy will create not just jobs, but--if done right--career opportunities across the United States as green manufacturing, green products, and green services fuel demand for workers at all skill levels. Sixty-one percent of the members of the Association of Energy Engineers report a growing shortage of qualified professionals…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Community Colleges, Higher Education, Labor Force Development
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Coval, Kevin – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2010
This article presents a poem about Joe Cytrynbaum. The poem brings together all the many facets of Joe's personality into a crystal-clear image of the beautiful, smart, and magnanimous individual Joe's family, friends, students, and colleagues all knew him to be.
Descriptors: Poetry, Profiles, Cultural Influences, Social Justice
Winfree, Terri L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Community college trustees are officials entrusted by the public to oversee the resources and property of community colleges; the board of trustees is seen as the link between the institution and the community they serve. Trustees make decisions that affect every aspect of an institution; therefore the accountability of these individuals at the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Trustees, Readiness, Work Attitudes
American Association of Community Colleges (NJ1), 2012
In times of economic uncertainty, community colleges have consistently turned to the experience of past generations as an avenue toward innovation and the modernization of their programs and services. Community colleges have been able to continuously reinvent themselves to serve the ever-changing needs of society. With President Obama's increased…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Economic Climate, Data Collection, Listening
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Leventhal, Tama; Shuey, Elizabeth A. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
This study explored how neighborhood social processes and resources, relevant to immigrant families and immigrant neighborhoods, contribute to young children's behavioral functioning and achievement across diverse racial/ethnic groups. Data were drawn from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, a neighborhood-based,…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Context Effect, Child Development, Immigrants
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bragg, Debra; Dresser, Laura; Smith, Whitney – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2012
Shifting Gears was launched in 2007 by the Joyce Foundation, a Chicago-based organization focused on improving the quality of life of citizens residing in the Great Lakes region of the United States. The primary goal of Shifting Gears is to increase the number of low-skilled, low-income Midwestern adults who obtain college-level occupational…
Descriptors: Credentials, Labor Market, National Competency Tests, Labor Force Development
Illinois Community College Board, 2009
Community colleges report opening Spring term opening enrollment figures to the Illinois Community College Board using a brief web based survey. This report contains information on student enrollments as of the end of registration -- usually the 10th day of the term -- for the Spring 2009 semester. Overall, statewide results of the fiscal year…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Full Time Equivalency, Community Colleges, Enrollment Rate
Sherer, Jennifer Zoltners; Grunow, Alicia – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2010
The authors prepared this report after exploring programs using a 90-day cycle process borrowed from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). The IHI 90-day cycle scans activity in the field as a "quick way to research innovative ideas and assess their potential for advancing quality improvement". The goal was to "get under…
Descriptors: Remedial Mathematics, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Instructional Innovation
LaLonde, Robert; Sullivan, Daniel – Hamilton Project, 2010
Robert LaLonde of the University of Chicago and Daniel Sullivan of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago suggest that retraining through our nation's community colleges is a way to reduce the skills gaps of at least some of these displaced workers and increase their reemployment earnings. Although workers may still experience significant earnings…
Descriptors: Retraining, Vocational Education, Community Colleges, Grants
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Roman-Vargas, Madeline; Estrada, Ricardo A. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2008
Carreras en Salud (Careers in Health) provides bilingual/bicultural individuals with a fully-supported customized career path for nursing and other allied health occupations bridging individuals from unemployment/underemployment to high-demand healthcare positions. Healthcare providers, elected officials, and community leaders have partnered with…
Descriptors: Careers, Community Leaders, Allied Health Occupations, Bilingualism
Pages: 1  |  ...  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  ...  |  102