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Briscoe, Felecia M.; Khalifa, Muhammad A. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2015
Using critical race discourse analysis, this study examines descriptions of a heated controversy over the proposed closure of the only primarily black high school in a large urban city. Participants included community members and the district and school leaders who were key in the controversy. Based on Foucault's analysis of power we looked for…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Critical Theory, Race, Discourse Analysis
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Bird, Carlotta Penny; Lee, Tiffany S.; Lopez, Nancy – American Journal of Education, 2013
How do American Indian students, parents, and teachers conceptualize leadership in New Mexico public schools? How do they negotiate power dynamics within this context? The objective of this study was to investigate how leadership and accountability in American Indian schools and communities in New Mexico is recognized, characterized, contested,…
Descriptors: Accountability, American Indian Education, Public Schools, Group Dynamics
AGGER, ROBERT E.; GOLDSTEIN, MARSHALL N. – 1965
THE SCHOOL POLITICS OF TWO COMMUNITIES WERE REPORTED. RANDOM-SAMPLE SURVEYS WERE CONDUCTED FOR BOTH THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS OF EUGENE AND SPRINGFIELD. INTERVIEWS WERE MADE WITH 703 RANDOMLY SELECTED ADULTS IN EUGENE AND 528 IN SPRINGFIELD. ATTITUDE OR ORIENTATION MEASUREMENTS WERE OBTAINED FOR VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THEIR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEMS. THESE…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Support, Educational Policy, Instructional Innovation
Maniloff, Howard – 1978
Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina, is a metropolitan school district which, in 1969, was ordered by a Federal judge to desegregate its more than 100 schools. Desegregation began in 1970 and continues today. Having found evidence that attitudes among whites toward both busing and desegregation had changed during these years, the author set out…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Bus Transportation, Community Attitudes, Educational Change
Rubin, Louis J. – 1973
This project was launched to discover if the communications gap between technical information about educational issues and lay consumption of the data could be breached. One of these issues, the financing of public education, was selected, and an investigation was launched to ascertain how written communications about educational finance could be…
Descriptors: Accountability, Bibliographies, Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Attitudes