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Peer reviewedEblen, David R. – Administrator's Notebook, 1975
Reports on a new examination of the Iannaccone and Lutz model of local school district politics that suggests the model's explanatory power is limited. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Community Influence, Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textGarard, Darin – 1995
Educational researchers should expand their methodology to include the student's voice and to consider the impact of the student's environment when defining being "at-risk of failure" or "at-risk of dropping out of school." Current definitions of who is at-risk place the onus of at-riskness entirely within the student.…
Descriptors: Community Influence, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Influence
Peer reviewedGillespie, Ardyth Harris – Journal of Nutrition Education, 1981
Presents a model for studying and developing school nutrition education programs and better understanding potential influences on children's current nutrition knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. Focuses on three environments (home and family, school, community) and the change process as influenced by nutrition education programs. (Author/DC)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Influence, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedCoon, Hilary; And Others – Intelligence, 1992
Associations between community environment and cognitive ability were studied in 167 adoptive and 175 nonadoptive Colorado families. Seven families were omitted. A proposed model, tested by census measures, finds several aspects of communities showing environmental relationships with child IQ over parental influences. Rural communities have a…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Cognitive Ability, Community Influence, Elementary Secondary Education
Trautwein, Donna; Biros, Jan – 1982
A politicized, sophisticated citizenry split into several special interest factions is placing great demands on school board members just as they find themselves struggling with unprecedented organizational and financial difficulties. In order to meet these challenges, board members must respond to districtwide needs rather than represent special…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Board Candidates, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education
Ogbu, John U. – 1981
Social scientists have adopted two different views on the influence of the community and home on academic achievement of lower-class and minority students. The first is the deficit perspective, or the failure-of-socialization hypothesis. The second is the difference perspective, or the cultural-discontinuity/failure-of-communication hypothesis.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Blacks, Caste
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1975
The 1974 Educational Testing Service (ETS) Measurement Award was presented to J.P. Guilford at the ETS Invitational Conference. Irving Kristol, in "Moral and Ethical Development in a Democratic Society," called for the restoration of authority within our major social institutions, especially schools. Martin Trow examined the effects of the college…
Descriptors: Awards, Community Influence, Conference Reports, Curriculum Development
