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Kaelyn K. Cole – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Though K-12 virtual education has been around for decades, the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly increased the number of K-12 schools offering virtual education to their students. This comparative case study's purpose was to explore secondary virtual schools within a public school environment. The focus of the study was to examine how two secondary…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Virtual Schools, Community Development, Secondary Education
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Forrester, Gillian; Kurth, Judith; Vincent, Penny; Oliver, Mike – Educational Review, 2020
This paper describes and evaluates the "Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) in Schools" project; which was designed as a public health intervention to explore the extent to which focusing on schools as community assets can promote well-being for pupils, their school and the local community. The paper reviews the literature in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Development, School Role, Public Health
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Balsano, Aida B. – Applied Developmental Science, 2005
The topic of civic engagement has come to the forefront of many recent discussions about the positive and healthy development of youth. Researchers and practitioners writing about youth civic engagement agree that civic engagement has short- and long-term benefits for youth and for society. These benefits have been discussed in terms of youth…
Descriptors: Community Development, Adolescents, Youth Opportunities, Citizen Participation