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City School Policy Committee, Portland, OR. – 1979
This document is a draft of a proposed city of Portland, Oregon, school policy. Four themes run through the document: (1) neighborhood revitalization, (2) best use of public facilities, (3) greater efficiency in human services, and (4) the best use of public funds. In particular the policies address questions of equal access to education, school…
Descriptors: Access to Education, City Government, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedJohnson, Leanor Boulin; Staples, Robert E. – Urban League Review, 1989
Describes the Young Inner-City Males Project, a pilot project to provide culturally relevant family life planning services to young minority males in Los Angeles. The project offered goal-directed support to promote sexual responsibility and reduce unwanted pregnancies. (FMW)
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Indians, Asian Americans, Black Youth
Donovan, Richard A. – 1992
An overview is provided of the development and activities of the National Center for Urban Partnerships, located on the Bronx Community College (BCC) campus in New York. Introductory comments describe the Center as a consortium of cities committed to improving student transfer through community-wide efforts, and outline the four conditions for…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Community Development
National Urban Indian Council, Denver, CO. – 1982
A source document on American Indians and Alaska Natives in urban areas, produced by the National Urban Indian Council, provides historical background on relocation to cities, comments on the trust relationship for off-reservation American Indians, discusses urban Indian organizations, and gives statistical information on American Indian…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian History, American Indians, Eskimos
Download full textSan Diego City Schools, CA. – 1979
This report summarizes programs under the Plan for Racial Integration which was developed by the San Diego, California, Unified School District to alleviate the racial isolation of minority students in the district's public schools. Described are elementary and secondary school integration programs, including magnet programs, learning centers, and…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Desegregation Methods, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Herrnstadt, Irwin L.; And Others – 1977
A case study of the introduction of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) in Boston was conducted (1) to chronicle and analyze the changes in employment and training planning and programs as the federal policy changes from a centralized and categorical policy to a decentralized and decategorized one, (2) to examine the impact of…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, City Government
Nardine, Frank E. – Equity and Choice, 1989
Describes the Rice Computer Education Center, a cooperative after-school project for providing computer training for at-risk elementary school students in Chicago (Illinois). (FMW)
Descriptors: After School Programs, Black Students, Colleges, Community Organizations
Connections: A Journal of Adult Literacy, 1989
The 10 articles (and introduction by Stephen Reuys) in this journal discuss issues of adult literacy/adult basic education from a variety of perspectives. Titles and authors are as follows: "The Boston Adult Literacy Initiative: Moving beyond Initiative" (Silja Kallenbach); "Project FOCUS: Writing through Pictures" (Beatriz M. Strohmeyer); "The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Bilingual Education Programs, Cambodians
Wunschel, Gerda – 2003
This working paper describes the development of a child care center in Berlin, Germany, focusing on how the program's pedagogical principles support children's learning, how respect for diversity is integrated in everyday practice, and how program quality and accessibility are defined within a multicultural context. Chapter 1 describes the…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Care Centers, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment
Clark, Terry A. – 1987
This paper discusses the potential of school district-based and community-wide approaches to dropout prevention, and provides a summary of the goals and expected outcomes of the Consortium on Dropout Prevention, and the Urban Dropout Prevention Collaboratives Program. The Consortium on Dropout Prevention was formed to cooperatively gather and…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Orr, Margaret Terry – 1987
Our nation's youth dropout rate, while consistent for almost 20 years, has increasingly become a major educational and societal problem. This summary of a longer sourcebook provides an overview of various strategies and initiatives for groups, schools, businesses, and communities to consider in addressing their dropout problems, and describes a…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Continuing Education, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
Milwaukee Public Schools, WI. Dept. of Educational Research and Program Assessment. – 1976
This is the annual evaluation report of the Title VII components of the Milwaukee Bilingual/Bicultural Education Program funded by Title I and Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1967 and the Milwaukee Public Schools. The results of the 1975-76 assessment of pupil progress toward achievement of the program's academic and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Career Education
Guerrero, Frank; And Others – 1988
The Children's Art Carnival (CAC) Creative Reading Program, a community arts and educational organization, combines instruction in reading with art activities. Operating in sites in Manhattan and Queens, New York, the program served 294 second to sixth grade students during the 1986-1987 school year. Students who scored poorly on the Degrees of…
Descriptors: Art Education, Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Art, Disadvantaged Youth
Mesa Public Schools, AZ. – 1976
In this final report, the demonstration project conducted by the Mesa schools from 1973 to 1976 is shown to have been successful in reaching its goals of staff training, information dissemination, and student benefits in developmental career guidance, counseling, and placement services for grades K-12. Student-related objectives which are listed…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Guidance, Counseling Objectives
Webb, Chris – Journal of Outdoor Education, 1982
Discusses the history of Notting Dale (an overcrowded, working class area), housing redevelopment there, facilities/program of the Notting Dale Urban Study Centre (West London), study of processes (urban planning juxtaposed with reality), people's problems in a changing urban environment, and examples of local studies leading to action on issues…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Attitudes, Community Cooperation, Disadvantaged Environment
