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Clark, LaWanda M. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
If schools are to succeed, children must be provided with more support than a school can accomplish alone (Barbour et al., 2001). The need to involve community in the educational process to offer services that make students successful and to have these services within the school building are all critical aspects of the community school model…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Parent Role, Neighborhoods, School Community Relationship
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Larsen, Marianne A. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2015
This case study about one university's internationalization initiative, known as North Goes South, provides a nuanced and finely grained understanding of what internationalization looks like in practice. The study was guided by a desire to probe the perceived impact of a Canadian-East African internationalization initiative on students, faculty,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Global Approach, Case Studies
Miller, Michael Ronald – 1975
The major problem of this study is that of identifying how schools function as both a determiner and a reflector of a society or community. It addresses three fundamental questions. First, access questions are dealt with, e.g. who participates--what is the position or social standing of community participants in schools. Second, process questions…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Action, Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics
Bilow, Scott – 1986
The results of centralization of one of the larger "small-rural" school districts in New York State are examined in this case study. The demographics of Yorkville and the feelings and opinions that residents have about their communities and schools are discussed first. Next, the history of the school system since 1950, when the district…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Centralization, Change Strategies, Community Attitudes
Glascock, Catherine H. – 1998
One of the results of rural school district consolidation has been the potential for schisms that develop among the divergent populations with distinct traditions, culture, and customs. This paper presents research on an Appalachian school district that remains in cultural turmoil after 25 years of consolidation. The population of the three…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Attitudes, Community Control, Community Relations
McConahay, John B. – 1981
This volume offers a proposal for a national desegregation study which would involve coordinated case studies of twelve to fifteen cities in which there has been substantial systemwide desegregation for 5 to 10 or more years. The following are identified as the principal components of the study: (1) a natural history of school desegregation; (2) a…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Attitude Measures, Case Studies, Community Attitudes