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UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2017
This Guide to Action highlights concrete approaches to the development of green and healthy learning cities, equitable and inclusive learning cities, and decent work and entrepreneurship in learning cities. It includes examples of good practice, which demonstrate the diversity of initiatives and reflect the manifold contexts and development stages…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Lifelong Learning
Estes, Elizabeth; Davis, Jeff; Shilton, Adrienne; Stoner-Mertz, Christine; Funk, Michael; Eisenberg, Lisa; Weller, Teneh; Knecht, Richard S.; Kelley, Veronica; Kain, Lara; Peck, Jennifer; Rosario, Aleah; Lombardo, Michael; Kimner, Hayin; Jacobs, Melissa; Dickey, Amanda; Epstein, Ken; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Alcala, Lupita; Caparas, Ruthie; Coley, Aressa; Justus, Marianne; Willis, Jason; Larsen, Karen – WestEd, 2022
This field guide is a first step by a collaborative of California child-serving education, health, and social service experts and leaders to further California's current efforts toward one effective, integrated, comprehensive, school-based child-serving system. The guide includes guidance for both local education agencies (LEAs) and state leaders,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Guides, School Districts, Public Officials
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1977
This guide is designed to help junior and senior high school students acquire basic competencies in daily living. In addition to identifying 13 competencies, the guide explains how students can obtain certification in those skills by members of the community whose jobs require them to be proficient in them. The competencies include transacting…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Resources, Community Role, Consumer Economics
Andersen, Carol – 1979
This booklet, the second in a series of four, was designed by the Task Force on Career Education as a handbook for state policy makers who are responsible for legislating the full implementation of career education. The content is presented in seven sections. The first on legislative leadership covers the goals and objectives of career education…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Career Education, Community Involvement, Community Programs
Swerdloff, Sol – 1980
This guide is designed to serve as a reference for community leaders in identifying key sources of support and actions to consider taking in the event of a prospective or actual mass layoff in their community. The guide is divided into four separate checklists of suggested actions. The first, and most detailed, section is directed to mayors,…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Services, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Slobig, Frank J.; George, Calvin H. – 1984
This document presents a proposal for a two-tiered community service and youth employment program. The first chapter presents youth employment data, describes the need for a work-education and community investment strategy, and discusses the proposal's underlying philosophical and economic ideas. Chapter II reviews four categories of successful…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Development, Community Services, Disadvantaged Youth
White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Washington, DC. – 2003
The guiding principle behind President George W. Bush's Faith-Based and Community Initiative is that faith-based charities should be able to compete on an equal footing for public dollars to provide public services. President Bush believes that the federal government, within the framework of U.S. Constitutional church-state guidelines, should…
Descriptors: Church Role, Community Organizations, Cooperative Programs, Federal Government
Far West Lab. for Educational Research and Development, San Francisco, CA. – 1972
Disaster is a fact of life. More than 68 disasters occur every day in the United States. These catastrophes range from hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes to train wrecks and neighborhood fires. All people face these and many other kinds of disasters, both natural and man-made. Air and water pollution, industrial accidents, and the possibility…
Descriptors: Civil Defense, Community Action, Elementary Secondary Education, Emergency Programs
Weiss, Carol H.; Hatry, Harry P. – 1971
This report is intended to provide government managers with some perspective on the nature and implications of sample surveys, their likely costs, and what can be expected from them. The authors discuss sample surveys less from the technical side than from the perspective of the officials who will make management decisions about an overall survey.…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Bibliographies, Community Surveys
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1985
In addition to its significance to educators as a major revision of a Federal education and training program, the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act contains many provisions that will have an impact on the relationship of vocational education to employers and the job training partnership community. The law requires that 43 percent of each…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Programs, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs
Jesuale, Nancy, Ed.; And Others – 1982
The second in a two-part series, this volume presents 13 chapters discussing many of the most pressing cable policy issues facing local government, describing alternative policy options, and suggesting regulatory procedures successfully used by decision makers in the United States. Topics covered are (1) "The Rationale for Regulation,"…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Cable Television, Case Studies, Community Programs
Ruffing, Jenny – 1991
The objective of this document is to provide information about estuaries, the impact of uses on the environmental health of an estuary, and what communities and concerned individuals can do to manage and protect their local estuarine resources successfully. Much of the information presented here pertains to other embayments along the Maine coast…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Conservation (Environment), Ecology, Environmental Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, Las Cruces, NM. – 1974
In recent years, parents and other citizens have lost their influence over local school boards because of increasing enrollment and district consolidation, lack of contact between board members and classroom teachers, teacher organization and subsequent veto power over boards, and the bureaucratization of educational systems. To alleviate this,…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Board of Education Role, Community Control, Educational Policy
Khanlian, John F.; Wallin, Katherine L. – 1975
This material provides a program to instruct secondary level students in the political, governmental, and legal process and to encourage active student participation in these processes. Part of a year-long curriculum program, this unit examines the structure and function of the state, county, and local levels. Included are policy formation,…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Curriculum Guides, Decision Making, Government Role
Fazio, Ernest J., Jr.; And Others – 1980
Developed to assist Native American reservation program planners, this handbook highlights a number of exemplary uses of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) funds in reservation economic development, presents a discussion of the problems reservations may face in meeting the new funding directions of the federal government, and…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Community Involvement
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