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Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, Washington, DC. – 2001
The CRitical Issue Bibliography (CRIB) Sheet describes resources that highlight institutional practices that have been instrumental in the creation of multicultural campus environments. These lessons from the field of multicultural education can help other institutions in developing and implementing policy. The annotated bibliography describes 10…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Environment, Educational Practices, Field Studies
Carfora, Jeanne; O'Rourke, Mary Lou – 1997
The primary purpose of this handbook is to provide the parent coordinator of the parent-powered family resource center with a specific guide for the development of a center. The handbook considers that a family resource center should exist to encourage family-school partnerships and to help strengthen parent-child interaction--it provides a…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Education, Family Involvement, Parent Participation
Joyce, Bruce, Ed.; Calhoun, Emily, Ed. – 1996
This book presents case-study findings of five school systems' efforts to become true learning communities through action research into the school-renewal process. The programs were located in the Southeast, Midwest, Far West, and an overseas region of the Department of Defense Dependents Schools. The programs shared three characteristics: a focus…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Case Studies, Educational Cooperation
Wonacott, Michael E. – 2000
The learning organization (LO) can be described as an organizational culture in which individual development is a priority, outmoded and erroneous ways of thinking are actively identified and corrected, and all members clearly understand and support the purpose and vision of the organization. The LO has proved difficult to define. These five…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Educational Environment, Industrial Psychology
Conley, David T. – 1993
Designed as a guide for practitioners, this book draws on over 600 sources to discuss school restructuring definitions, trends, and issues; achievements of a few select schools; and implementation techniques and strategies. Two overarching, indirectly stated issues pervading the reconceptualization of schooling are multiculturalism and a caring…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Curriculum, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Codianni, Anthony V.; Wilbur, Gretchen – 1983
The purpose of this paper is to identify those programs and processes currently using the components, factors, and behaviors that have been described in the literature as characteristic of more effective schools, and to synthesize findings from these programs and processes carrying out effective schooling practices. Following an introduction,…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Administrator Role, Basic Skills, Demonstration Programs
Ellis, Thomas I. – Research Roundup, 1986
Included in this summary analysis of three journal articles and two documents on teacher evaluation are reports that touch on difficulties facing school officials in developing a teacher evaluation system and suggestions for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of an evaluation system. The first article, by Susan S. Stodolsky, challenges…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Concurrent Validity, Cooperative Planning, Decision Making
