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Bodilly, Susan J.; Augustine, Catherine H. – RAND Corporation, 2008
Arts education has been a low priority in the nation's public schools for more than 30 years. In some communities, a countermovement to this dwindling presence of arts education in the schools has developed in the form of initiatives aimed at coordinating schools, cultural institutions, community-based organizations, foundations, and/or…
Descriptors: Art Education, Cultural Centers, Public Agencies, Public Schools
Blank, Martin J.; Jacobson, Reuben; Melaville, Atelia – Center for American Progress, 2012
A community school is a place and a set of partnerships connecting a school, the families of students, and the surrounding community. A community school is distinguished by an integrated focus on academics, youth development, family support, health and social services, and community development. The community school strategy is central to efforts…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Social Services, Unions, Community Development
Morrison, Charles C., Jr. – Conservationist, 1971
Descriptors: Agencies, Community Action, Community Organizations, Conservation (Concept)
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Whetten, David A. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1978
This study uses an integrated macro and micro organizational behavior perspective to focus on the difficulty that directors of public agencies have satisfying multiple interest groups. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Community Organizations, Decision Making
Bovay, Sue – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1976
Describes the activities of the Monroe County Library System's Urban Information Center. (PF)
Descriptors: Community Information Services, Community Organizations, Community Resources, Directories
Herman, Louis, Comp.; Eisner, Joseph, Comp. – 1974
Various characteristics of and information about the area comprising the Plainedge School District in Nassau County, New York, are compiled in this survey. The information is collected in the following categories: census data, history, school district, other educational facilities, the library, community groups, recreation, other governmental…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Education, Community Organizations, Community Programs
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Giles, Mary M.; Love, Robert L. – Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 1977
Focuses on one two-year college's (School of Allied Health Technologies, State University of New York at Alfred, New York) activities in assisting health related facilities to meet their continuing education needs. (TA)
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Cooperative Planning, Health Personnel, Inservice Education
Whalen, Lucille – 1976
A study was undertaken to identify the information needs of persons working with the aging in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy area of New York State, with the goal of establishing some type of information center. Over 2,000 questionnaires were sent to groups working with the aging. Over half of the 34 respondents noted a need for information on state…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Counseling Services, Health Personnel, Information Dissemination
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Bridgeland, William M.; Duane, Edward A. – Education and Urban Society, 1980
Compares the state governance and power structures in early child education in Michigan, California, and New York. Focuses on the informal, dynamic networks of power and influence among public and private agencies and, in turn, between these agencies and clients attached to a variety of interest groups. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Agency Role, Community Organizations, Decision Making, Early Childhood Education
Walling, Harry G., Jr. – 1976
Three hundred and forty individuals, employed at 32 randomly selected human service agencies, completed a questionnaire to determine the educational needs of an estimated 3,000 employees of 159 human service agencies in the four county Capital District of New York State. Analysis of the data indicated that human service agency personnel in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Organizations, Educational Needs, Educational Research