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Emily Markovich Morris; Laura Nóra; Richaa Hoysala, Contributor; Max Lieblich, Contributor; Sophie Partington, Contributor; Rebecca Winthrop, Contributor – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2024
This report is the result of the participation of hundreds of students, families, school educators, and researchers who dedicated their time and energy to investigating the critical role that families and communities play in ensuring students and schools can flourish. It is a culmination of over two years of collaborative research and hundreds of…
Descriptors: Students, Teachers, Educational Researchers, Academic Achievement
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Elliott, Kathlyn E.; Mathew, Katie A.; Fan, Yiyun; Mattson, David – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2022
Prior to 2020, empirical research and reports on approaches to education during health crises were limited. They focused primarily on reporting local-level response and provided only limited analysis. Various historic epidemics, like SARS, Ebola, and HIV/AIDS, provided important lessons about educational efficacy during major health emergencies.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Communicable Diseases, Access to Education
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Mather, Vicki – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2001
Discusses the Safe and Caring Schools Project, a Canadian program that encourages school practices that model and reinforce socially responsible and respectful behaviors so that learning and teaching can take place in a safe and caring environment. This holistic program stresses the importance of the role parents, teachers, and the community play…
Descriptors: Community Role, Educational Environment, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Leu, Elizabeth – Academy for Educational Development, 2005
The paper reviews a select body of literature that focuses on the role of teachers, schools, and communities at the local level in creating quality education in less-developed countries. The review asserts that understanding what is happening in schools and classrooms is a precondition for shaping more effective quality improvement strategies.…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Community Role
Lau, Ron – 1996
Shared governance within the community college fosters a sense of empowerment and equal partnership in the members of the organization. Accountability is multi-directional, not hierarchical, as in the case of the traditional pyramidal organization. In California, community college governance underwent a tremendous change in 1988 with the passage…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, College Governing Councils, Community Colleges
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Rabinow, Kathryn L.E. – Urban Education, 1983
Analyzes the views and research findings of various authorities concerning educational goals; school desegregation effects on achievement, and aspects of social life; and the role of school staff and community in desegregation. Stresses the importance of considering alternatives and allowing for diversity in shaping educational climates. (MJL)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Blacks, Community Role
Arthur, Richard; Erickson, Edsel – 1992
This book explores the U.S. gang problem, based on the author's 35 years of experience as a high school and junior high school teacher, principal, and community organizer in Oakland and Los Angeles (California). Chapters discuss the subculture of gang worlds, reasons why youth are attracted to gangs, how educators can reach out to students, the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Community Role, Delinquency