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Lash, Cristina L.; Sanchez, Monika – Education and Urban Society, 2019
Nationwide, place-based initiatives aiming to improve school and community outcomes are in the midst of neighborhood demographic change. We explore this issue through a case study of the Mission Promise Neighborhood (MPN). We discuss how the social and educational context of MPN poses several challenges to implementing Promise Neighborhood…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Working Class, Advantaged, Whites
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Cooper, Robert; Slavin, Robert E.; Madden, Nancy A. – Education and Urban Society, 1998
The relationship between participation in national reform network activities and the quality of the Success for All program implementation is examined. Results of a research survey of principals and facilitators indicate that the success of the reform program relies on networking among teachers and schools through participation in national…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Education, Federal Programs, National Surveys
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Checkoway, Marjorie – Education and Urban Society, 1990
Analyzes the experiences of three midsize Michigan school districts in implementing school desegregation programs under the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA). Concludes that effective implementation requires clear goals and objectives, committed leadership, community support, and on-going political support. (FMW)
Descriptors: Desegregation Plans, Equal Education, Federal Programs, Politics of Education
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Ellis, John – Education and Urban Society, 1983
Discusses effects of federal educational funding on procedural changes, structural changes, personnel opportunities, and student access at local levels since 1965. Suggests that federal programs have had the most pervasive impact on minority group education and that impacts have been greater than the percentage of federal dollars allocated to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Government Role
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Holloway, Wilfred B. – Education and Urban Society, 1981
Attributes the lack of success among youth employment/education programs over the past 50 years in part to inadequate evaluation of concept development, program implementation, and individual outcomes. Discusses objectives, implementation, and results of various private and government-supported youth employment and school to work plans. (JCD)
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Evaluation Criteria, Federal Programs
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Elmore, Richard F.; McLaughlin, Milbrey Wallin – Education and Urban Society, 1983
Uses previous implementation studies to investigate the process of local implementation of federal educational policy since 1965. Examines assumptions underlying federal educational policies; suggests different ways of thinking about the federal role in education; and maintains that effective implementation of federal educational programs requires…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Federal State Relationship
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Bosco, James J.; Harring, L. Richard – Education and Urban Society, 1983
Traces the development and missions of the federally sponsored Teacher Corps program. Discusses how persons functioned and what problems they confronted at local level implementation of the program. Suggests that major implementation problems of Teacher Corps stemmed from inability to restructure the program in accordance with modifications in its…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs