The Scottish "New Community Schools" program encourages health, education, and social service agency collaboration to improve outcomes for disadvantaged children. A first-year evaluation indicates that additional funding has enabled new multi-agency initiatives, particularly in health promotion; development of students' personal learning…

This resource provides schools and jurisdictions with a sample framework and strategies for developing and/or supporting a culture of character and citizenship. The framework encourages individual schools to assess and put action plans in place to improve their cultures. It also looks at how character and citizenship education can be supported by…

This report describes, provides demographic data for, and evaluates the effectiveness of a bilingual program for Spanish and Italian speaking students in Grover Cleveland High School, Queens, New York. The program relies upon individualized instruction and aims to mainstream students into the regular pre-college curriculum within 2 years, if…