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Download full textSussmann, Leila – 1970
This report reveals the results of studies made of three groups actively seeking community participation in school affairs in a city noted for its conservative school system. The study utilized participant observation supplemented by interviews and document analysis. Each group had only 15-30 active members and no broad base in the community. All…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Control, Community Influence, Community Involvement
Zwiebach, Burton – 1969
To say that community control is democratic means that such control is consistent with the ideas of the democratic tradition. Even so, participation is hampered by the "natural" apathy of people. But the fact of apathy has too little research as to its causes to be well understood; perhaps, apathy is a rational response to a society which…
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Involvement, Community Organizations, Community Role
Peer reviewedAchtenburg, Ben – Urban Review, 1972
Suggests that in deciding what should be written into the franchise of cable television and to whom it should be given, local groups can have their first and perhaps greatest influence over the way cable will affect their community. (JM)
Descriptors: Cable Television, City Government, Community Control, Community Involvement
This Magazine Is About Schools, 1970
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Control, Community Involvement, Community Organizations
Davies, Don – 1979
A vast number of different types of citizens' groups participate in the educational process with differing degrees of involvement. Besides school-oriented groups, there are child advocacy and neighborhood associations, other citizens groups that have broad concerns but are in part interested in schools, and the advisory committees created by legal…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Control, Community Involvement, Community Organizations
Brown, Roscoe C., Jr. – 1970
Research on District Decentralized Title I ESEA programs reveals conflict among school officials, community representatives, and community agencies. School officials mistrust and poorly communicate with community representatives. Community agencies compete for the economic resources brought by decentralization, while overlooking the main objective…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Problems, Administrator Responsibility, Community Control
Philadelphia Commission on Decentralization and Community Participation, PA. – 1970
The Philadelphia Commission on Decentralization and Community Participation offers plans for reforms on the school and district level. On the school level, three options are suggested: (1) informal community participation in decision-making; (2) advisory participation in the form of an elected or appointed committee from the community; or, (3)…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Advisory Committees, Boards of Education, Community Action
Aspen Systems Corp., Germantown, MD. – 1981
This Project SHARE bibliography lists 43 documents that are representative of the literature concerning the effects of neighborhood consensus on human services delivery. It is divided into three sections: abstracts, an alphabetical list of personal or corporate authors, and a title index. The abstracts are preceded by citation data to aid in…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Administrator Guides, Annotated Bibliographies, Community Control
