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Peer reviewedWilson, Stephen H. – Urban Education, 1983
Nine locally initiated projects designed to improve the connections for problem solving between urban schools and the community were examined. Results showed that the desired school/community connections were difficult to achieve and seemed fragile and vulnerable. A new approach to school reform in urban schools is suggested. (AOS)
Descriptors: Community Influence, Community Involvement, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedOrnstein, Alan C. – Urban Review, 1983
Two results of minority pressure for community involvement in educational decision making are (1) administrative decentralization and community participation, and (2) administrative decentralization and community control. However, regarding "community control," controversy abounds over whether elected public officials and professional educators or…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Control, Community Influence, Decentralization
Download full textClement, Dorothy C.; Livesay, J. Michael – 1980
This paper traces the development of input from the black community of Bradford, North Carolina, in the decision-making, administration, and resource allocation of the local school district. The approaches taken by blacks and by the traditional interests in the district to express their respective ideas during this development are analyzed and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Influence, Community Involvement, Community Role
Forest, Robert F. – 1979
Analyzed are certain societal factors--political, demographic, financial, public relations, student profiles, and mission statements as they have influenced the growth of Castleton State College since becoming a member of the Vermont State College system in 1961. Data for the study were gathered from a literature review of one of the daily…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Role, Community Influence, Educational Demand
Morris, Richard W.; Louis, Conan N. – 1983
This report describes a program which grew out of a study that explored writing and literacy skills in Anglo, Black, and Hispanic high school students in North Philadelphia. Section One describes writing in the lives of adolescents as viewed within the home, community, noninstitutional, and broader sociopolitical settings. Particular emphasis is…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Black Dialects, Black Students, Community Influence
Mukenge, Tshilemalema – 1988
The meaning of independence, or freedom, in the culture of the Luba, an African ethnic group in Zaire, is inextricably linked to fundamental rights, the development of personal qualities, and the choices that the individuals make. The rights of a Luba man are based on legitimate membership in his family, his lineage, and his chiefdom. A free man…
Descriptors: African Culture, Citizenship Responsibility, Civil Liberties, Community Influence
