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Peer reviewedLewis, Helen Matthews – Now and Then, 1990
Maxine Waller describes how concern for the children of Ivanhoe (Virginia) led her to become president of the Civic League. The Civic League has mobilized the town to renovate buildings and create a riverside park, promoted business ventures, and sponsored adult education classes and an oral history project. (SV)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Children, Community Action, Community Change
Evans, Dan, Comp. – 1966
The document considers several unfortunate cycles: (1) belligerent students cause desperate teachers, who cause more belligerent students; (2) ineffective parents cause bewildered youth who never take advantage of existing opportunities and who create, in turn, more bewildered children; (3) browbeaten tenants cause callous landlords to neglect…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Children, Community Action, Community Development
