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Direct linkMarshall, Joanne M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
The Boone Hope Foundation has given away over $130,000 in gift cards, rent checks, and eyeglasses--all targeted to help students with emergency needs related to food, clothing, shelter, and healthcare in its rural Iowa community. This is the story of teachers from a typical Midwestern school--relatively small and certainly not affluent--who have…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Student Needs, Homeless People
Green, Daniel G. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
Strapped for cash, a Massachusetts high school creates its own venture capital fund to incentivize teachers to create programs that improve student learning. The result has been higher test scores and higher job satisfaction. One important program is credited with helping close the achievement gap at the school, while others have helped ambitious…
Descriptors: High Schools, Financial Needs, Fund Raising, School Business Relationship
Lee, James O. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
The Common Core of Standards project has strong national support, but it will not succeed if it doesn't involve teachers in grassroots development activities. The initiative should involve local consortia of schools in working with the new standards, assessments, and support tools. Local teachers would design teaching units and then share these…
Descriptors: National Programs, Academic Standards, Alignment (Education), School Culture
Christman, Jolley Bruce – Phi Delta Kappan, 2003
Drawing lessons from the rise and fall of Philadelphia's reform efforts offers the benefit of hindsight to other cities. The engagement of stakeholders from different sectors of the community is crucial to the success of a reform. (Contains 18 references.) (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Citizen Participation, Community Action, Comprehensive School Reform
Arnove, Robert F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1981
Nicaragua's National Literacy Crusade of 1980 has brought impressive results. Through a mass mobilization effort, people of all ages served in 60,000 Sandinista Literacy Units; those who read taught those who could not. This article describes the program's implementation and outcomes. (Author/WD)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Community Action, Community Cooperation, Developing Nations
Stranix, Edward L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Describes an environmental action program taking place in the schools of five counties in Pennsylvania. The program deals with environmental problems on a practical level and offers technical and consultant assistance to schools and individual teachers. Specific action programs are described. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Community Action, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Experiential Learning
Street, Paul – Phi Delta Kappan, 1970
The appraisal of community action is the focus of this report on the establishment of 14 community centers in Kentucky. (MF)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Community Action, Compensatory Education, Economic Development
