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Payne, Katherina A.; Falkner, Anna; Adair, Jennifer Keys – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background: U.S. preschool children from Latinx immigrant and Black communities often experience schooling rooted in compliance and overdiscipline. In these contexts, schools do not recognize the rich lived experiences of Children of Color as suitable for civic learning. This article explores how, when schools value young Children of Color as…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Hispanic American Students, African American Students, Childrens Attitudes
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Maxcy, Brendan – Urban Education, 2009
Examining work and community relations in one Texas school district, this study explores intensifying managerialism under performance accountability (PA) pressures. Reports, press releases, and media accounts are combined with ethnographic study from one elementary school to explore the enactment of school district reforms. Locating PA within a…
Descriptors: Ethnography, School Districts, Educational Change, Community Relations
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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
HUGHES, JAMES M.; AND OTHERS – 1967
A COLLECTION OF STATEMENTS CONCERNING FUNDAMENTAL FUNCTIONS WHICH DISTINGUISH THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL OR THE UNIVERSITY IS PRESENTED. THE UNIQUE NATURE OF THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, ITS EDUCATIONAL ROLE, AND THE COLLEGE TO COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIPS ARE DISCUSSED AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPLICATIONS SUGGESTED. SUCH AREAS AS THE COMMUNITY…
Descriptors: Building Design, Campuses, Community Colleges, Community Relations
Texas A and M Univ., College Station. Coll. of Education. – 1974
The general sessions of the nationwide conference for vocational administrators and supervisors addressed the topics of: (1) weighted pupil funding and implications for vocational education, (2) State funding as conceived by the governor's staff, (3) area school jurisdictions, (4) present funding and vocational education, and (5) the challenge of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Community Relations, Conference Reports, Educational Administration
Boone, Mike – 1994
This paper explores the relationship between community stability and school conflict in a small rural Texas school district. Data included school district records; newspaper archives; and interviews with school district officials, community members, and officials of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). Texas County (a pseudonym)…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Community Attitudes, Community Change, Community Problems