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Peer reviewedZusman, Richard – Integrated Education, 1974
Emphasizes that their participation will develop more comprehensive needs assessment and evaluation procedures; part of the Title I funds will go directly back to the target areas, and parent involvement will result in better acceptance of Title I throughout the communities. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Attitudes, Compensatory Education, Educational Change
Short, Anthony J. – Momentum, 1976
Question: What do you do when your parish grade school becomes too expensive to operate? Answer: Turn actual control of the school over to the local community and seek federal financing for the new school. Sound impossible? St. Stephens Indian School on the Wind River Reservation in northcentral Wyoming has done just that. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Catholic Schools, Community Attitudes
Corwin, Ronald G. – 1977
The roles of 10 federal program officers responsible for monitoring the progress and quality of rural educational change projects funded by the Experimental Schools program were explored through questionnaires, interviews, observation, and site visits. Despite differences in background, opinions, and perceptions of the officers, all 10 had to…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Community Attitudes, Educational Change
Donnelly, William L. – 1979
Organizational hostility plagued the entire 1972-1978 Experimental Schools (ES) program in Constantine, Michigan, and ultimately resulted in its failure. Constantine had a history of conflict between those residents advocating local control and those, mainly newcomers, advocating external intrusions into the community. When the ES program began,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Attitudes, Community Cooperation, Conflict
Hennigh, Lawrence – 1979
The 5-year Experimental Schools (ES) project in the South Umpqua, Oregon, school district was observed from a "participant observer" point of view. The South Umpqua district served four rural communities in which residents were adaptable to economic change, accepting of newcomers, and very involved in their communities as decision makers…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Change, Community Cooperation, Conflict
Fitzsimmons, Stephen J.; Freedman, Abby J. – 1981
The study documents what happened in 10 rural communities when a federal educational funding program (Experimental Schools) in 1972 provided 5-year grants for demonstration projects designed both to improve the school system and, through the schools, to address a variety of community needs. The study employs two strategies to document the ways in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Community Attitudes, Community Change
Messerschmidt, Donald A. – 1979
When the Experimental Schools (ES) program began in 1972, schools in conservative and traditional River District, Wyoming, had just undergone a controversial consolidation. The ES program was perceived by new administrators as a source of necessary unity, useful outside help, and financial incentives. School trustees were "favorable but…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Career Education, Community Attitudes
Jones, Earl, Ed.; Davis, Peter B., Ed. – 1977
The Edgewood Independent School District (San Antonio, Texas), using a mini-system of one high school, one middle school, and four elementary schools, conducted an Experimental Schools Program from 1972-1977 to test a local decision making, long-term innovative program to effect substantial changes in the affective and cognitive characteristics of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development
Stannard, Charles I. – 1979
With the reorganization of the Experimental Schools Council, administrative support and power were mobilized and the Experimental Schools (ES) project in New Hampshire's North Country Supervisory Union began to accomplish its goals in its third year. The project was hampered by the independence of the three districts included in the loose…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Agency Role, Building Trades
Burns, Allan F. – 1979
The planned Experimental Schools (ES) project changed drastically before it was implemented in Willcox, Arizona, a diverse, multicultural community open to new ideas and outside innovations. As planned by a core of interested principals, teachers, and staff, with help from federal personnel, the project originally called for changes (in…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Anglo Americans, Bilingual Education, Community Attitudes
Colfer, A. Michael; Colfer, Carol J. Pierce – 1979
The federal Experimental Schools (ES) project was not successful in the rural school district of Quilcene, Washington. The ES project was not helped by the pervasive and powerful social split between "public employees" and "locals." Each group had its own world-views, values, symbols, and life styles, and the school provided an…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Age Grade Placement, Age Groups, Athletics
