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How Ontario Spread Successful Practices across 5,000 Schools
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Glaze, Avis – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
Ontario embraced a provincial lead improvement plan that was designed to improve its 5,000 schools by focusing on literacy and numeracy, improving high school graduation, and improving public support for education. Its primary strategy was developing networks of educators and building their capacity for growth.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Effective Schools Research, Success, Educational Improvement
Student Success the Way They Need It: Powerful School Change
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Ford, Donna – Phi Delta Kappan, 2008
School leaders who want success for all students know that it does not come easily. Getting to what activates student improvement often requires a major unearthing of beliefs about instruction and leadership practices. Such inquiry can help schools realize that their current ways of working are not meeting student learning needs and that practices…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Public Schools, Community Schools, Student Improvement
The Nicaraguan National Literacy Crusade of 1980.
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
The West German Sports Club System: A Model for Lifelong Learning
Rust, Val D.; Schofield, Terry – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
In spite of its obvious deficiencies, the club system in West Germany represents a powerful model for lifelong education in the sphere of sports and recreation. (Author)
Descriptors: Athletics, Clubs, Community Recreation Programs, Foreign Countries
Voices from the Attic: Canadian Public Opinion on Education.
MacLeod, G. E. Malcolm – Phi Delta Kappan, 1985
Reports results from the 1984 Canadian Education Association poll of public opinion of education. This is the first Canadian survey of its kind. (MD)
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, National Surveys
Was NetDay an American Phenomenon?
Cronin, Caitlin Jane – Phi Delta Kappan, 2000
NetDay began in California as an idea developed by Michael Kaufman, of KQED, and John Gage, of Sun Microsystems. They proposed the "electronic barn raising" concept, drawing on community resources to wire schools and encourage citizens to cooperate. Other states and Australia now participate. (MLH)
Descriptors: Community Services, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Local Area Networks
Experiential Environmental Education in Russia: A Study in Community Service Learning.
Silcox, Harry C. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1993
In June 1992, 26 high school students and environmentalists left United States to participate in community service/experimental learning environmental project in Russia. Focus was environmental monitoring of Novgorod, Russia. Both U.S. and Russian students gained in scientific knowledge; Russian teens felt more empowered about community service.…
Descriptors: Community Services, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, International Educational Exchange
Working Together for the Student: What I Learned from Two Years on a Primary School Board in New Zealand.
Dyer, Samuel Coad – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
A former board member of a New Zealand primary school describes the country's political climate as radical economic libertarian; contract bidding among schools will soon be required. Elementary schools are child-centered and multicultural, operate year-round, involve the board and community, follow a national curriculum, and have overworked,…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Community Involvement, Economic Factors, Elementary Education