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Blank, Martin J.; Shah, Bela P. – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2004
Schools continue to face a wide array of issues as they seek to improve student achievement and strengthen the community. While community schools have been identified as an important model for addressing these issues, the challenges to creating and sustaining them cannot be overlooked. They are complex systems that must be established carefully…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Community Involvement, Academic Achievement, Governance
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Wilson, Michael – Arts Education Policy Review, 1996
Summarizes data extracted from a national survey of Canadian provinces concerning educational policy towards arts education. Discovers greater centralized control in the more populous provinces with the remote areas ceding authority to local boards. Different provinces appear to conceive of the arts in significantly different ways. (MJP)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Art Education, Community Control, Data Collection
Elliot, Ian – Teaching PreK-8, 1996
Examines one school's implementation of Basic School approach, characterized by connections among curricular areas, classroom and resources, the school, community, and parents. Describes classroom strategies, including mixed-age classes, two-year classes, and peer helpers. Describes community connections, National Guard mentors, running community…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classroom Techniques, Community Centers, Educational Change
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Davidson, Fiona M. – Journal of Geography, 1997
Describes the somewhat contradictory movements towards political and economic integration and political decentralization in the European Union (EU). Discusses the implications of those trends for the future of the sovereign state, specifically for Spain, France, and the United Kingdom. Maintains that political power is being wrested away from core…
Descriptors: Current Events, Decentralization, Economic Change, Economic Factors
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Walker, Iain; Gibbins, Keith – Journal of Social Psychology, 1996
Recounts an experiment where two groups of college students composed questions for a simulated quiz show and then answered each other's questions. They then answered questions comparing their performance with other groups. Proposes a social norm rather than attribution error explanation for the fact that groups consistently will underestimate…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Ability
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Des Brisay, Margaret – TESL Canada Journal, 1994
Data from the Canadian Test of English for Scholars and Trainees (CanTEST) are compared to data from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) to establish CanTEST as a valid admissions tool for English-as-a-Second Language college applicants. Data are taken from four groups of examinees who took both tests. (eight references) (LR)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing, Correlation
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Kunze, Joel P. – OAH Magazine of History, 1991
Outlines a lesson plan in which students role play a 1920s farm family deciding whether to buy an automobile or a tractor. Other students act as automobile and tractor sales groups. Explains how the lesson illuminates relationships between technological advance and social history. Includes handouts identifying benefits of purchasing cars or…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Decision Making, Economic Factors, Family (Sociological Unit)
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Zorbas, Mark; O'Neill, Marnie; Chapman, Anne – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2004
This purpose of this study was to identify influences on young males' decisions to withdraw from their studies in certificate courses at a Western Australia College of Technical and Further Education (TAFE). The research focused on males aged between 17 and 21 years, and their reasons for either dropping out of or persisting in entry-level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Development, Males, Focus Groups
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
McCaw, Donna; Watkins, Sandra – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007
The format of this book addresses the most salient questions administrators, school board members, and community stakeholders need to ask to ensure academic and fiscal accountability, providing definitions, background information and the current research. Readers will be provided with sufficient knowledge to effectively question the financial…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Early Childhood Education, School Safety, Reading Improvement
Online Submission, 2006
This resource is a revision of the teaching resource Individualized Program Plans (1995), Book 3 (ED392232) in the Programming for Students with Special Needs series. It aims to create a bridge between the product, the process and the underlying vision of Individualized Program Planning (IPP). The Standards for Special Education (Amended June…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Special Needs Students, Program Development
National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2008
As part of the usual end of year meeting that has been a feature of the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education (NCETE) project, a conference intending to provide a forum for young voices in an outside of the Center was organized. The basic model for the gathering was borrowed from track and field. This was to be an intellectual…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Educational Technology, Program Effectiveness, Self Efficacy
Whittaker, Andrea – 1994
This report describes an investigation into how a school moves from a handful of individual teachers dabbling in alternative assessment strategies to full school implementation of an assessment system. The research was conducted at Bay Park Elementary School in the San Diego (California) City School District, a school participating in a pilot…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Community Involvement, Cooperation, Educational Assessment
Goldsmith, Sharon S. – 1995
This ethnographic study of the creation of a new public university, California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB), highlighted the struggle of the founders to build a collective identity based on a distinctive vision for the 21st century. The original plan envisioned a model pluralistic academic community with a culture of innovation that…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), College Administration, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Igbineweka, Andrew O.; Princes, Carolyn D. W. – 1996
This study considers the impact of curriculum decisions on African American achievement by exploring faculty and administrator views and attitudes toward curriculum decisions at public and private institutions of higher education. A random sampling of 291 faculty and administrators at two U.S. institutions, one public and one private, was asked to…
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Black Culture, Black Education, Comparative Analysis
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