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Franz, Kristi Rennebohm – 2000
The Water in Africa Project was realized over a 2-year period by a team of Peace Corps volunteers, World Wise Schools (WWS) classroom teachers, and WWS staff members. As part of an expanded, detailed design, resources were collected from over 90 volunteers serving in African countries, photos and stories were prepared, and standards-based learning…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Benchmarking, Community Resources, Comparative Analysis
Lombard, Ellen C. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
The conservation of childhood and youth is a problem that is occupying the attention of educators, publicists, and welfare workers in this and other countries. Conservation of child life is not separable from the problem of conservation of womanhood. During the past two years, greater service was demanded from the women throughout the country.…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Males, Community Problems

Alexander, William M. – High School Journal, 1978
The author notes four problem areas ignored by the CBS special, "Is Anyone Out There Learning?": student motivation, school-parent planning, educational bureaucracy and unions, and use of community resources. This entire journal issue consists of comments on this CBS television program, aired in August, 1978. (SJL)
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Documentaries, Educational Needs, Educational Problems

Frymier, Jack – High School Journal, 1978
The author suggests that the complex educational problems touched on by the television special "Is Anyone Out There Learning?" can only be solved by leadership at the building level. This entire journal issue consists of comments on this CBS news special, aired in August, 1978. (SJL)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Difficulty Level, Documentaries, Educational Needs

Rymes, Betsy – TESOL Quarterly, 2002
Reports on a community-based teacher education project in which preservice English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teachers developed language curricula for a Latino community in the United States. Shows how many of the issues that characterize language in development work in poor countries also affect ESL instruction in the United States and other…
Descriptors: Community Development, Developing Nations, Economic Development, English (Second Language)

Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen; Jensen, Lene Arnett – Youth & Society, 1994
One hundred Danish adolescents and 133 American adolescents were compared on various aspects of socialization and risk behavior. Overall, socialization was narrower among Danish adolescents, and rates of risk behavior were higher for American adolescents in the areas of driving and minor criminal behavior. Rates of sex without contraception were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Community Influence, Contraception

Levin, John S. – Higher Education, 2001
Examined the nature of government policy toward community colleges in the United States and Canada in the 1990s and colleges' responses. Government policies were found to direct community colleges toward economic goals, emphasizing workforce training and state economic competitiveness and compelling colleges to improve efficiencies, increase…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Economic Development, Educational Policy

Ward, Cynthia V. L. – Community College Review, 2001
Uses the example of British polytechnic institutions' conversion into universities as a warning to the United States to avoid transforming community colleges into baccalaureate-granting institutions. Asserts that conversion places undue burdens on community colleges while altering their historic mission. (NB)
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, Colleges, Community Colleges
Prelow, Hazel M.; Danoff-Burg, Sharon; Swenson, Rebecca R.; Pulgiano, Dana – Journal of Community Psychology, 2004
The purpose of the present study was to examine the role of cumulative ecological risk (i.e., neighborhood disadvantage and ecologically salient stressful events) and perceived discrimination on the psychological adjustment of urban African American and European American youth. Findings indicated that both cumulative ecological risk and perceived…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Psychology, Risk, African Americans
Gilpin, Lorraine – Teacher Education and Practice, 2005
Black Caribbean immigrant women teachers perceive and interact with African American students on multiple levels. This article highlights how the Black Caribbean immigrant teachers' perceptions of schooling in the United States echo the perspectives of African Americans; how the participants' actions and goals as teachers mirror the…
Descriptors: African American Community, Immigrants, African American Teachers, African American Students
Reid, Jennifer S.; Ross, Jean W. – Reclaiming Children and Youth: The Journal of Strength-based Interventions, 2005
Adolescents in foster care must have a voice and play an active role in envisioning and planning for successful adulthood. This principle serves as the philosophy of First Voice, a training package for anyone who works with youth in foster care. The philosophy corresponds with the four parts of the Circle of Courage--Independence, Belonging,…
Descriptors: Caseworkers, Child Caregivers, Adolescents, Social Work
King, Kendall – International Journal of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism, 2004
This paper discusses bilingual education model types in South America with a special focus on the Andean region, and examines the recent language planning decisions by one Ecuadorian indigenous group to formally instruct Quichua as a second language in community schools. Specifically I argue that this type of localised planning--which promotes an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Schools, Bilingualism, Bilingual Education
Anderson, Gregory M. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2005
In exploring the relationship between cultural capital, symbolic violence and the diversification of the curriculum the notion of commoditization of race in higher education is developed. The term first and foremost emphasizes how students from "disadvantaged" racialized communities remain significantly underrepresented at selective…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Racial Factors, Colleges, Selective Admission
Nichols, Lee Anne; Keltner, Bette – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, 2005
The purpose of this study was to explore the community response of how American Indian families adapt to having school age children with disabilities in two diverse American Indian communities. An ethnographic design was utilized to construct a taxonomy about family adjustment of American Indian families with disabilities. Community Assessment…
Descriptors: American Indians, Children, Family (Sociological Unit), Adjustment (to Environment)
Galisson, Kirsten; Brady, Kristin – Academy for Educational Development, 2006
In May 2001, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell announced the establishment of the Global Development Alliance (GDA) as a key part of a new business model for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The GDA initiative aims to launch best practices in public-private partnerships around the world. The model is designed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Private Sector, Public Sector