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Bossone, Richard M., Ed.; Polishook, Irwin H., Ed. – 1988
These proceedings from a conference on restructuring the schools present a variety of perspectives for instituting educational change. Consideration of the theme allowed a review of the failures of educational reform, and a survey of current trends. There was a call for less rhetoric and more attention to comprehensive insights and plans that will…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Curriculum, Dropout Prevention, Educational Change
Download full textHorace Mann Learning Center (ED), Washington, DC. – 1980
This is a report on the proceedinqs of the Workshop on Evaluation Strategies for Urban Intervention Programs sponsored by the Education Forum Branch of the U.S. Department of Education and held on October 23, 1980. The report contains the remarks delivered by the workshop speakers as well as the questions and statements of different panelists.…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation
National Urban Coalition, Washington, DC. – 1979
The papers presented in this document are the following: (1) "Historic Roles of Public Education" by Faustine C. Jones, (2) "The Social Costs and Benefits of Public Education" by Bernard C. Watson, (3) "School Inequality in the Emerging Welfare State: Does It Make Sense?" by John D. Owen, (4) "Investment and Disinvestment in Public Education" by…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
Duggan, Terri, Ed.; Holmes, Madelyn, Ed. – 2000
This report highlights results from the 1999 Wingspread Conference on improving student achievement, a gathering of educators, leaders, and policymakers that opened a dialogue about barriers to full implementation of high standards for all students. Participants discussed five papers that examined these issues from top to bottom--from the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Diversity (Student), Educational Environment
Indian Community School of Milwaukee, Inc., WI. – 2000
A March 2000 education summit brought together educators, parents, and community leaders to discuss key issues in the education of American Indian and Alaska Native students who attend school in urban areas. This summary report provides an overview of the main points discussed in a keynote address and four panel discussions. The keynote address by…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Cultural Maintenance, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change
Council of the Great City Schools, Washington, DC. – 1990
This document outlines 44 strategies for meeting the educational needs of urban areas by the year 2000. The strategies are based on six goals for urban education adapted from the national education goals issued by President George Bush and the National Governors' Association. The strategies were proposed by representatives from more than 70…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement, Educational Planning
Mahar, Mary Helen, Ed. – 1966
Papers contributed by the conferees and members of the staff of the Office of Education are organized into seven subject areas: (1) problems of urban education and school library services; (2) interrelating curriculum and school library supervision in large cities; (3) school library services for culturally deprived children and youth in large…
Descriptors: Conferences, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Problems
Slavin, Peter – 1974
The aim of career education is stated to be to avoid tracking lower class students into a time-serving education, one-way jobs, and narrow lives by preparing all for careers of their choice. To date, most career education programs have been concentrated in the suburbs. The National Urban Coalition wants career education to be made part of the…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth
Palmer, Jim – 1993
The New York University Symposium on Urban Community Colleges examined the distinctions between urban and non-urban community colleges, the role of urban community colleges in linking high schools and universities and in promoting local economic development, and methods of identifying and developing leaders for these institutions. No definitive…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Role, Community Colleges, Educational Change
Miller, Lamar P., Ed. – 1986
This report comprises papers delivered at a conference assessing the impact of the Supreme Court decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education 30 years after it was passed in 1954. The following papers (and authors) are included: (1) "Reflections on Brown after Thirty Years" (Linda Brown Smith); (2) "School Integration and the…
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Plans, Educational Quality
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, New York, NY. – 1977
This report is a compilation of reports from ten Task Forces convened by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in May 1977. The challenge was to examine what quality education is, what it takes for the system to deliver quality education to every student, and why the system has failed with many black youths. Ways…
Descriptors: Black Education, Blacks, Curriculum Development, Educational Administration
Johnson, William A., Jr.; And Others – 1977
The symposium on the Financing of Quality Education was intended to initiate a dialogue in the Rochester-Monroe County, New York, area among professional educators, administrators, parents, businessmen, and experts in the field of educational finance and management. About 80 of the key players in the educational decision-making arena for this area…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Citizen Participation, Conference Reports, Educational Change
Mann, Philip H., Ed. – 1974
Provided are 19 presentations made to 200 participants in a conference on issues of mainstreaming, career education, and teacher education programs for urban handicapped children. Noted are four conference objectives such as improving communication within states between educational agencies and large city special education (SE) personnel.…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Education, Classification, Conference Reports
Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. – 1987
The National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement sponsored a conference to take a close look at the practical ways in which education is being reformed, and perhaps transformed, with the assistance of private-sector advice and innovations and with certain business disciplines. Following are the titles and authors of the papers…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Planning
Jones, Steven R., Ed. – ISEP Monitor, 1980
This is the report of a conference held in March 1980, for the purposes of sharing, among black educators, experiences with successful education programs and devising strategies for improving ineffective schools. The introductory addresses by Shirley Chisholm and Augustus F. Hawkins are summarized, as are the presentations of John Algee, Mary…
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Teachers, Curriculum, Discipline
