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The Effect of Communities in Schools on High School Dropout and Graduation Rates: Results from a Multiyear, School-Level Quasi-Experimental Study
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Porowski, Allan; Passa, Aikaterini – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2011
Communities In Schools, Inc. (CIS) is a nationwide initiative designed to connect needed community resources with schools to help students, particularly those identified as at-risk, successfully learn, stay in school, and prepare for life. As part of a comprehensive 5-year national evaluation of CIS, ICF International conducted a school-level…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Community Resources
A Collaborative School-Based Mental Health Program that Helps Students Succeed
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Newgent, Rebecca A.; Featherston, Larry W.; Stegman, Charles E.; Lee, Sang Min – ERS Spectrum, 2009
The School-Based Mental Health Program's goals are to identify at-risk children, reduce ineffective functioning of at-risk children, provide social service interventions, increase effective parenting skills, help families access community resources, and support mental health education. The program was designed to develop a comprehensive,…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Health Education, Health Programs, Mental Health
Curriculum Review Handbook: Foreign Language.
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1981
This handbook aids the foreign language teacher in conducting a reappraisal of her/his foreign language program. Section one discusses the formulation of a philosophy of foreign language education and a rationale for including foreign languages in the curriculum. Section two helps the teacher recognize expected student outcomes for particpation in…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Educational Philosophy
City School. First Year Report.
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City School, Madison, WI. – 1973
In 1971 members of TTT (a federally funded doctoral program within the University of Wisconsin school of education), teachers at Memorial High School, students, and community members planned an alternative school -- namely City School. This report provides background information, descriptive and objective outside evaluative data for the school,…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Community Schools, Comparative Analysis, Educational Programs
Improvement of Occupational Education in the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Phase I. An Assessment of the Comparative Effectiveness of Occupational Education Delivery Systems in Six Institutions of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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Cronin, F. Patrick; And Others – 1976
At the request of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBP), the Center for Vocational Education assessed the comparative effectiveness of approaches for delivering occupational education, particularly the use of civil service employees who provide occupational education programs within FBP institutions as opposed to use of community resources through…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Community Resources, Comparative Analysis, Contracts
A Comparison of the Impacts of Population Change on Public Education and Health Services in the Non-Metropolitan Counties of the Ozarks.
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Campbell, Rex R.; And Others – 1980
Five types of counties (College-Professional, Urban, Recreational-Retirement, Extractive, and Most Rural) were identified among 83 counties in the Ozark-Ouchita Uplands in order to determine educational and health impacts resulting from the "population turnaround" of the late 1960's and early 1970's. Variables were computed from…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Change, Community Health Services, Community Resources