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Conway, Patrick Filipe – Harvard Educational Review, 2020
This article takes up the central question of how college-level prison education programs should be justified and defended. Author Patrick Filipe Conway argues that the focus on recidivism rates as justification for major initiatives like the Second Chance Pell Program and New York governor Andrew Cuomo's Right Priorities initiative is misguided…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
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Hipsky, Shellie; Scigliano, Deborah; Parker, David – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2013
Due to the closing of the GM Manufacturing Plants, Grand Rapids, Michigan area experienced an extreme loss of jobs, which led to low-socioeconomic hardships such as "food insecurity" that was witnessed in the needs of the many students who attend the Grand Rapid Public Schools. This case provides insight into how educational leader…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Hunger, School Community Programs, School Community Relationship
Gray, Maryann J.; Ondaatje, Elizabeth H.; Fricker, Ronald; Campbell, Nancy; Rosenblatt, Kathy; Geschwind, Sandra; Goldman, Charles A.; Kaganoff, Tessa; Robyn, Abby; Sundt, Melora; Vogelgesang, Lori; Klein, Stephen P. – 1998
This report addresses impact of the Learn and Serve America Higher Education (LSAHE) service learning initiatives on communities, higher education institutions, and students, and is based on 3 years (1995-97) of data collection and observation at 27 institutions. LSAHE has awarded grants to higher education institutions and community organizations…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Extracurricular Activities, Federal Programs, Higher Education
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
The national summer dropout campaign of 1963 was initiated by President Kennedy. Subsequent to a June 19 meeting at the White House of over 250 leading educators, another group of local administrators met with Federal officials to discuss possible actions that might be taken to reduce dropouts. The ensuing campaign began and ended within a span of…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Summer Programs, Community Cooperation, Presidents
Education Resources Group, Inc. – 1991
Methodologies for evaluating/documenting partnership programs are analyzed and options for evaluating/documenting OERI's Educational Partnerships Program (EPP) are proposed. The EPP supports alliances between public schools and/or higher education and the private sector to encourage excellence in education. This paper reflects…
Descriptors: Documentation, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods