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Peer reviewedMcCarty, T. L. – Harvard Educational Review, 1989
Rough Rock, Arizona, in the Navajo Reservation, is the first school to be run by a locally elected all-Indian school board and the first to incorporate systematic instruction in native language and culture. This demonstration program has led to changes in the community's social, economic, and political structures. Federal funding has both enabled…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians, Bilingual Education
Paoli, Lillian – 1978
This study documents the evolution and implementation of a program directed by the Council on Comprehensive Education (CCE) toward the purpose of realizing community control of a comprehensive high school in New York City. The program was one of nine at sites selected by the Documentation and Technical Assistance (DTA) Project as representing…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Case Studies, Community Change, Community Control
Leonard, Deni – 1980
A program to bring about community involvement in the development of curriculum for public schools was implemented in Seattle in 1974-75 by the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation. The program follows a 12-step procedure that begins with selecting community representatives who will learn curriculum planning skills enabling them to make…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians, Change Strategies
