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Hong, Soo – Harvard Education Press, 2011
How can low-income, non-English-speaking parents become advocates, leaders, and role models in their children's schools? "A Cord of Three Strands" offers a close study of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, a grassroots organization on the northwest side of Chicago, whose work on parent engagement has drawn national attention. The…
Descriptors: Parent School Relationship, Parent Participation, Organizations (Groups), Urban Schools
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Eisner, Manuel; Meidert, Ursula – Journal of Primary Prevention, 2011
This paper reports findings on parental engagement in a community-based parent training intervention. As part of a randomized trial, 821 parents were offered group-based Triple P as a parenting skills prevention program. Program implementation was conducted by practitioners. The intervention was implemented between Waves 1 and 2 of a longitudinal…
Descriptors: Intervention, Prevention, Parent Participation, Program Implementation
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Gordon, David S.; Ghosh, Cyril – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2013
Building relationships between traditional college students and adults with disabilities is an important yet little understood aspect of civic engagement. The case study presented in this paper built one such relationship by utilizing a shared narrative project to construct an equitable collaborative experience between a set of students from…
Descriptors: College Students, Peer Relationship, Communities of Practice, Adults
Etherington, Stuart – Adults Learning, 2010
All corners of the media are scrutinising David Cameron's "Big Society", from every conceivable angle. While the concept has caught the public's imagination, the greater challenge of fleshing out what the Big Society will actually offer and require of communities is unfinished business. The National Council for Voluntary Organisations…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Community Resources, Community Involvement, Outreach Programs
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Werber, Laura; Derose, Kathryn Pitkin; Dominguez, Blanca X.; Mata, Michael A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2012
This study explores how religious congregations interact with other community organizations to address health and, in particular, HIV-related needs within their membership and/or local communities. Case study data from a diverse sample of 14 urban congregations (6 Black, 4 Latino, 2 White, and 2 mixed race-ethnicity) indicate that they engaged in…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Public Health, Human Capital, Child Health
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Austin, Sheila M.; Reynolds, Glenda P.; Barnes, Shirley L. – Education, 2012
School bullying remains a serious issue although it has been the subject of national news, government agencies, schools and community organizations since the school shootings at Columbine. School administrators must implement school policies concerning bullying and harassment. The authors describe how administrators can develop a school-wide…
Descriptors: School Personnel, Bullying, Instructional Leadership, Community Organizations
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 2011
This guide describes the role of enforcement and community organizations or groups in preventing underage drinking parties and how to safely disperse them. It describes the problem of underage drinking, in general, and youth-drinking parties in particular. It provides step-by-step information on how to address underage drinking parties and how to…
Descriptors: Drinking, Law Enforcement, Community Organizations, Prevention
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Timm, Chad William – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2014
Even before withstanding one of the most devastating economic crises in American history, families living in poverty have battled a dominant discourse that labels them as lacking personal responsibility, initiative, and the ability to make "good" choices. This discourse is reflected in the parent-involvement mandates of the No Child Left…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, Social Capital, Community Organizations
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Crowe, Justin; McWilliams, Susan; Beienburg, Sean – PS: Political Science and Politics, 2010
As part of a course considering "American Democracy in Theory and Practice," we took 36 students to Rick Warren's Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California. During that visit, students observed a community that seeks self-sufficiency and yet proves to be simultaneously responsive to and reflective of American democracy more broadly.…
Descriptors: Democracy, Language Attitudes, Civics, Individualism
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Bennett, Pamela R.; Lutz, Amy C.; Jayaram, Lakshmi – Sociology of Education, 2012
We investigate class differences in youth activity participation with interview, survey, and archival data from a diverse sample of parents (n = 51) in two schools. Findings point toward structural rather than cultural explanations. Working- and middle-class parents overlap in parenting logics about participation, though differ in one respect:…
Descriptors: Social Class, Child Rearing, Working Class, Middle Class
Wood, James – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2011
From 2009 to 2010, the Community Food Security Coalition advocated for more federal support and funding for farm-to-school programs as Congress considered reauthorizing the Child Nutrition Act. Farm-to-school initiatives aim to improve the quality and healthfulness of student meals through the inclusion of more fresh fruits and vegetables provided…
Descriptors: Food Service, Nutrition, Food Standards, Advocacy
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Williams, Monique M.; Meisel, Marie M.; Williams, James; Morris, John C. – Gerontologist, 2011
Purpose: The African American Outreach Satellite (Satellite) provides educational outreach to facilitate African American recruitment for longitudinal studies at the Washington University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC). This descriptive article characterizes the Satellite's recruitment methods, plan for community engagement, results of…
Descriptors: African Americans, Outreach Programs, Alzheimers Disease, Health Personnel
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Bofelo, Mphutlane; Shah, Anitha; Moodley, Kessie; Cooper, Linda; Jones, Barbara – McGill Journal of Education, 2013
This article argues that the model of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) in use at the Workers' College in South Africa may be seen as a form of "radical pedagogy." Drawing on documentary sources, focus group interviews with staff, and observations, it describes an educational philosophy which aims to build the competencies of activists…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prior Learning, Focus Groups, Interviews
Rivera, Jessica; Donovan-Pendzic, Esperanza; Marion, Mary Jo – Voices in Urban Education, 2015
The English Language Learner (ELL) Summer Camp in Worcester, Massachusetts--an intensive six-week program that served middle school and high school students from Worcester Public Schools (WPS)--was the product of a five-way partnership that included the school district, higher education institutions (Latino Education Institute [LEI] at Worcester…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, School Community Programs, Enrichment Activities
Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2015
In this webinar, Dr. Joyce Epstein, Director of the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships and the National Network of Partnership Schools, discussed what the research says about effective family engagement. The webinar and PowerPoint presentation are also available. A brief list of resources is included.
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Family School Relationship, Academic Achievement, Correlation
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