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Download full textMassachusetts Department of Fire Services, Stow. – 1999
This updated curriculum planning guidebook is a resource for fire educators throughout the state of Massachusetts. It is designed to be a tool in efforts to: identify fire problems in the community; select appropriate behaviors and lessons to correct the fire problems; design fire education programs; and implement and evaluate the programs. The…
Descriptors: Community Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Fire Protection
Peer reviewedStephens, Michael D. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1983
Discusses the American view of the role of education in developing Americans. Focuses on Massachusetts, the heart of early American industrialization, which gave prime importance to publicly supported education as a vehicle of social conditioning. (JOW)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Community Development, Educational Environment, Educational History
Direct linkBlackman, Anne Berlin; Luskin, Jack – Health Education, 2006
Purpose--The purpose of this paper is to explore the efficacy of a community-based outreach initiative, piloted in Worcester, Massachusetts, to reduce children's exposure to toxic chemicals in common household products by changing parental behavior regarding product purchase and use. Design/methodology/approach--The program model was based on the…
Descriptors: Hazardous Materials, Child Health, Health Programs, Program Effectiveness
Wachtel, Betsy; Powers, Brian – 1979
This volume attempts to document ways in which several communities have dealt with the problems of declining school enrollments. Each case study outlines some type of public participation in the task of adjusting to population changes and fiscal pressures. The first chapter supplies an introductory overview of issues related to declining…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Bus Transportation, Case Studies, Citizen Participation
Kraemer, Jacqueline, Comp.; And Others – 1992
This booklet, part of a series of profiles on family support and education programs across the United States, contains profiles of five diverse programs designed to improve the future of children through family-focused and comprehensive service delivery. Programs examined are North Dakota's Child Welfare Reform Initiative, Iowa's Decategorization…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Community Services, Compensatory Education, Cooperation
Najarian, Michael – 1976
Project Reach is based on the assumption that youth, adults, and other target populations will be assisted to a significant degree in knowing more about occupations and in making occupational choices more effectively through the planned interaction with trained retired resource counselors. The project will address three major problem areas: The…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Guidance, College School Cooperation
Peer reviewedBranch, Laurence G.; Stuart, Neil E. – Gerontologist, 1984
Describes the Massachusetts Home Care Corporation network, which provides alternatives to institutional long-term care. This investigation confirms that home-based support service can be targeted to selected subgroups, that targeting can be maintained, and that the recipients of these services are indeed the individuals who risk…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Home Programs, Older Adults
Neylon, Terrance Bernard – 1991
This case study explores the role of educators in educational facilities planning and construction and discusses the different agendas and perspectives people bring to the development of educational facility specifications. It describes how cooperation and input among stakeholders resulted in a Massachusetts community college was built in 18…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Colleges, Cooperative Planning, Educational Facilities Planning
Peer reviewedWhite, Arthur O. – Phylon, 1973
Descriptors: American History, Bias, Black Community, Black History
Peer reviewedTanis, Norman Earl – History of Education Quarterly, 1970
Descriptors: Agricultural Skills, American Indian Languages, American Indians, City Government
Diehl, William; Alex, Hoffinger; Weisstein, Ephraim – Phi Delta Kappan, 2002
Describes background for school-to-work effort in Massachusetts, the state's design and implementation of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act (STWOA) of 1994, the local impact of the state's STWOA grant, challenges to making school-to-work a top priority of state education reform strategies to improve student achievement, and state and local…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Programs, Education Work Relationship, Educational Policy
Peer reviewedJennings, Lenora; Likis, Lori – Educational Leadership, 2005
An urban community spotlighted declining mathematics achievement and took some measures, in which the students' performance increased substantially. The Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, engaged the entire community and launched the campaign called "Math Everywhere", which changed Benjamin Banneker's…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Mathematics Achievement, Achievement Tests, Charter Schools
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2008
"After School: Connecting Children at Risk With Responsible Adults to Help Reduce Youth Substance Abuse and Other Health-Compromising Behaviors (After School)" helped develop intermediary organizations in Boston, Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area in order to create citywide systems of after-school programs. The…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, After School Programs, Youth Programs, Health Behavior
Smiles, Robin, Ed. – Education Sector, 2010
This fourth edition of the "ES Review" brings together, in one setting, some of the best work from 2009-10. It features: (1) Teacher Quality (Teachers at Work: Improving Teacher Quality Through School Design (Elena Silva); Understanding Teachers Contracts (Andrew J. Rotherham); How Teachers Unions Lost the Media (Richard Whitmire and…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Educational Quality, Contracts, Unions
Silka, Linda; Renault-Caragianes, Paulette – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2006
Profound changes taking place in communities and in universities are bringing researchers and community members new opportunities for joint research endeavors and new problems that must be resolved. In such partnerships, questions about shared decision making--about the ethics of collaboration--arise at every stage: Who decides which problems are…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, Universities, Participative Decision Making
