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Peer reviewedSherman, Paul; Banks, Dennis – Middle School Journal, 1995
Describes use of community-survey research by seventh-grade social studies students to teach research techniques and survey methodology in an authentic setting and record community attitudes about the school to establish strategic school goals. Concludes that the project provided multiple positive results for students while providing a basis for…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Educational Objectives, Grade 7, Middle School Students
Johnson, Michael J.; Vaughan, Sherry – 1992
This paper describes Colton School District's (Washington) project of the Rural School of the 21st Century. The goals of the 6-year project, initiated in 1988, were to incorporate technology into all aspects of education and to use technology in restructuring the school system. The Colton School District consists of 184 students in a single K-12…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Attitudes, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Goate, Edward W. – 1977
Public demands for accountability in school systems led the Capital School District in Dover, Delaware, to begin investigating management systems in 1974. This investigation led to the adoption of a management by objectives system in 1975 and the addition of program budgeting in 1976, providing the district with the tools of administrative…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Attitudes, Board of Education Role, Community Attitudes
Millett, Ricardo A. – 1977
The Model Cities Program is discussed in this report in terms of neighborhood revitalization, citizen participation, and funding. The effects of the program, as a Federal intervention in the social, political and economic problems of the urban poor, are described. The operational effectiveness of the program's participatory mechanisms designed to…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Citizen Participation, Community Attitudes, Community Development
McDiarmid, G. Williamson – White Cloud Journal, 1983
An indigenous, village-controlled, largely village-funded youth organization in a remote Western Alaska village serves educational, social, recreational, service, and economic functions; provides activities vital to community social/recreational life, relief from stress, and alternatives to substance abuse; and increases competency and sense of…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Involvement
Terman, C. Burnett – 1980
An experience-based career education project for high school students was developed and evaluated. The career explorations program, which met ten hours per week for one semester, was designed to provide new and different career oriented learning experiences for students, to involve more of the community in providing these experiences, and to…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Community Attitudes, Community Involvement
Download full textCooper, Bruce S. – 1979
The purpose of this study is threefold: to recount the history of the Anacostia Community School Project (later renamed the Response to Educational Needs Project) in Washington, D.C. between 1967 and 1978; to analyze the events of the period in light of theories of historiographic and social scientific developments; and to provide lessons from the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Attitudes, Community Control, Curriculum Development
Peer reviewedBridgeford, Nancy J.; Owens, Thomas R. – Journal of Career Education, 1979
Developed and implemented through four regional educational laboratories, Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) provides secondary students with an alternative education program combining academic learning, community resource career experiences, and life skill development. Program evaluation of data from sixteen pilot sites indicates that EBCE…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Attitudes, Cooperative Education, Experiential Learning
Nussbaum, Claire A. – 1981
Community education programs have seldom presented quantitative data to validate the usefulness of the program. This study was an attempt to establish a beginning community education program while planning for quantitative evaluation from the initiation of the project. Based on a group process, community residents were involved in the development…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Community Attitudes
Kleinfeld, Judith; And Others – 1983
The paper discusses dilemmas in doing research on the kinds of teachers who are effective with Eskimo and Indian children in isolated, rural Alaska communities. Issues discussed are identification of effective cross-cultural teachers by a "multiple hurdle" technique; criteria that 228 teachers, 29 administrators, and 40 community members…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Affective Behavior, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education
Bagley, Roy; Hamlin, Morton – 1979
Replicating the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's (AEL) experience-based career education (EBCE) model, this project had as its objectives increasing students' basic, career awareness, and life skills; developing in students awareness of their abilities, interests, and aptitudes; developing positive student, parent, and community attitudes;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education
Braun, Kurt; And Others – 1980
As part of Project IMPACT's efforts to identify and develop procedures for complying with the impact requirements of Public Law 94-482, a case study was made of two Illinois communities and the vocational education programs in those communities. The study examined the relationship between the "good" vocational education programs in…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, Community Attitudes, Educational Assessment
