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Download full textLueck, Susan, Ed. – 1980
This booklet presents summaries of the proceedings of five workshops held at the U.S. Department of Education that discussed strategies for improving urban schools. The first section contains materials from a workshop on the New Haven School Intervention Project, an elementary school effort designed to aid black and disadvantaged children. In the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Change Strategies, Disadvantaged Youth
Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia. National Center on Fathers and Families. – 2000
This paper summarizes a roundtable that brought together researchers, school leaders, practitioners, and policymakers to identify barriers to the education and well-being of urban children and families and explore opportunities to promote change. The first section summarizes the three commissioned papers: "Issues and Strategies Related to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Differences, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement
Safran, Daniel, Ed.; Charlot, Edie, Ed. – 1995
The "Families and Schools: A Global Perspective for a Multicultural Society" conference hosted over 500 people from 40 states and 16 countries who shared information and explored aspects of multicultural education. Sixty-one of the more than 100 workshop and roundtable presenters responded to the request for summaries of their…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Characteristics
Bossone, Richard M., Ed.; Polishook, Irwin H., Ed. – 1993
This publication presents 13 papers selected from a conference on school choice, which was designed to shed light on what is meant by school choice, what proposals are being advanced to achieve choice, and how various sections of the community view the issue. Following a preface and a list of participants in the conference, an essay by Christopher…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Educational Change, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education
Green, Robert L. – 1998
The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Summit that focused on the education and academic achievement of African American students was unique because the school district and the African American community came together as partners to seek ways to improve the educational status of African American students. This report tells the story of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Black Students, Church Role, Community Involvement
Duff, Ogle B., Ed.; McClain, Herman J., Ed. – 1987
The six major conference papers collected in this document focus on developing ways of facilitating equity and academic achievement in a desegregated setting. The psychological impact of fostering these expectations among multicultural populations, methods for involving minority students in a science and math high-tech curriculum, and methods for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development, Educational Environment
Southern Education Foundation, Atlanta, GA. – 1986
This report of a conference on educational policies, patterns, and programs in the South summarizes the opinions presented by each major speaker. The following topics were discussed: (1) the continuing necessity of extending educational opportunity to all; (2) the signs of an emerging crisis--the growing number of disadvantaged children and an…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Educationally Disadvantaged
Bossone, Richard M., Ed.; Polishook, Irwin H., Ed. – 1986
The eleven papers presented at a 1985 conference on school-to-work transition are collected in this volume. The papers focus on school-business partnerships, school programs, and community projects. Their titles (and authors) are: (1) "Investing in Our Children: Business and the Public Schools" (Sol Hurwitz); (2) "From School to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Education, Dropouts, Education Work Relationship
Bossone, Richard M., Ed. – 1985
This document contains the proceedings of a conference on improving the academic skills of urban students. Titles and authors of the twelve included papers are: (1) "Academic Skills and the SAT," George H. Hanford; (2) "New York City Promotional Gates Program: Implications for Instruction of Academic Skills," Charlotte Frank;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, College School Cooperation, Compensatory Education
Bossone, Richard M., Ed.; Polishook, Irwin, Ed. – 1983
The theme of the conference reported on here was school reform and related issues. An introductory statement, "Thoughts on School Reform," by Jerome Bruner, and a list of conference participants are followed by a group of papers on education and politics. The papers are "Reform and Partnership in Education," by Albert Shanker;…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, College School Cooperation, Computers, Educational Change
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Kennedy School of Government. – 1984
This document summarizes the proceedings of a conference of urban leaders on public-private collaborative efforts to address the problems of inner-city high schools. Findings presented and opinions expressed at sessions on the following topics are outlined: (1) education funds; (2) city-wide umbrella organizations; (3) goal setting--tying jobs and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Educational Finance, Educational Objectives, High Schools
Foundation for Excellent Schools, Middlebury, VT. – 1998
More than 230 educators from 125 schools and communities around the country gathered for the national conference of the Foundation for Excellent Schools to exchange ideas and strategies for educational improvement. The conference theme, "Achieving Educational Excellence through Collaboration," was featured in sessions exploring the possibilities…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Educational Quality
Astrein, Bruce; Steinberg, Adria – 1985
This report summarizes a working conference held at the Educational Technology Center in the Harvard University Graduate School of Education to explore the uses of educational technology in urban schools and offer recommendations for developing policies and programs. Participants included urban practitioners, researchers, professors, policy…
Descriptors: Administrators, Community Involvement, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy
Bossone, Richard M., Ed. – 1982
These proceedings contain three reports of improvement programs designed to help students to succeed in large urban school systems. In the first report, the "Achievement Goals Program" (AGP) is described as a highly structured, objective based instructional program in reading and mathematics carried out for the purpose of reducing racial…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Improvement Programs
Lee, Valerie E., Ed. – 2002
This collection of papers describes research on school and system level change in Chicago's high schools. Papers include "Introduction: Setting Chicago High School Reform within the National Context" (Valerie E. Lee); (1) "The Effort to Redesign Chicago High Schools: Effects on Schools and Achievement" (G. Alfred Hess, Jr. and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Cooperative Learning, Culturally Relevant Education
