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Fawcett, Gay; Shannon-Smith, Elaine – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2008
School-community partnerships make a difference in student achievement. Synthesizing 35 years of research to provide insight into "what works in schools," Robert Marzano (2003) concluded that community involvement is a critical factor. Though community involvement takes many forms, generally organizations such as libraries, museums, parks, zoos,…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, School Community Relationship, Community Organizations, Educational Opportunities
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Hewitson, Robyn – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2007
The history of remote school education in the Northern Territory can best be summarised as years of lost opportunities, pedagogies of discrimination, and diminished lives for those parents and children who trusted and responded to the government's invitation to come to school. From late 2001 to 2005 historic educational change occurred in the…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Indigenous Populations, Community Education, Figurative Language
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Ginsburg, Mark B.; Arias-Godinez, Beatriz – Comparative Education Review, 1984
A theoretical analysis of how nonformal education by radio represents a less expensive/more effective strategy for transmitting skills, knowledge, and values, increasingly likely to be adopted and directed toward adults in rural areas of developing countries. Illustrated with material from fieldwork in Huayacocotla, a village in Veracruz, Mexico.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Education, Community Study, Comparative Analysis