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Squires, Don – Education in Rural Australia, 2003
Australian rural communities often suffer from psychological isolation in addition to geographic isolation. Human and social capital are powerful antidotes to psychological isolation and are closely dependent on learning. Rural schools can reverse the negative effects of isolation on educational outcomes if they first work on building human and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Attitudes, Community Development, Disadvantaged
Chicago Urban League, IL. Dept. of Research. – 1982
In this report, the Chicago Urban League assesses the Chicago Board of Education's proposed school desegregation plan. The report discusses eleven points of disagreement with plan provisions. The issues raised include: (1) the absence of concrete provisions, especially numerical standards, to ensure that existing black-white separation in Chicago…
Descriptors: Blacks, Busing, Community Attitudes, Demography