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Download full textTepper Jacob, Robin; Armstrong, Catherine; Willard, Jacklyn Altuna – MDRC, 2015
This study reports on an evaluation of the "Reading Partners" program, which uses community volunteers to provide one-on-one tutoring to struggling readers in underresourced elementary schools. Established in 1999 in East Menlo Park, California, the mission of "Reading Partners" is to help children become lifelong readers by…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Volunteers, Reading Difficulties, Tutoring
Peer reviewedCriscuolo, Nicholas P. – Reading Teacher, 1971
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Mass Media, Parent Participation, Parent Workshops
Peer reviewedWilson-Gebhardt, Concetta; Plowman, Corlea S. – Reading Teacher, 1980
Provides guidelines to involve the entire community in a successful reading fair, based on procedures followed in Newport News, Virginia. (RL)
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Involvement, Community Support, Exhibits
Peer reviewedPetre, Richard M. – Journal of Reading, 1972
Notes the reading problems and reading demands of modern society; provides a four-step plan for community reading programs. (Author/RB)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Curriculum, Illiteracy, Public Schools
Peer reviewedSommers, Jeffrey; Palmer, Virginia Ellis – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1985
Describes a literary study program for residents of a community college area. (FL)
Descriptors: College English, Community Involvement, English Instruction, Higher Education
Peer reviewedAmes, Candice M.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1989
Describes various events and activities during Pine City, Minnesota's, "I Love to Read Month," which focused on a "Reading Railroad" theme. Lists 12 stories and 16 poems about trains that were used for oral presentations. (MM)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Elementary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Parent Participation
Boldovici, John A.; And Others – 1971
A study of one of the model "Reading is FUNdamental" (RIF) programs located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was made to determine the success of the program and to formulate suggestions for changes. RIF is a program in which free or inexpensive books are made available in a community through schools, libraries, and other local organizations…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Community Cooperation, Community Involvement
San Francisco Unified School District, CA. – 1970
This report focuses on the planning stages and first and second years of operation of the Community Education Planning Project (CEPP) of the Ocean View, Merced Heights, Ingleside (OMI) Community Association. Curricular and program changes in the planning period in the seven elementary schools of the area envisaged the development of these schools…
Descriptors: Community Education, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Curriculum Development
Anderson, Julie, Ed. – Community Update, 1999
This document consists of nine issues (covering January through December 1999) of the newsletter "Community Update," containing articles on community and family involvement in education. Article topics include: new programs to help students prepare for college early; Vice President Al Gore announced the first-ever national Hispanic…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement, Educational Technology
Anderson, Julie, Ed. – Community Update, 1998
This document consists of 10 issues of the newsletter "Community Update," containing articles on community and family involvement in education. Article topics include: preparing America's future teachers; reports on satellite town meetings; E-rate (education rate) discounts for telecommunications services in schools and libraries;…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Early Childhood Education, Educational Finance, Educational Testing
Harris, Kenneth A.; And Others – 1982
Summary profiles of Detroit, Michigan, public high schools for the period 1975-1981 are presented in this report which is based on the results of a criteria-based monitoring project to determine the success of court-ordered school desegregation programs in Detroit. Included in the report are: (1) a description of project organization, project…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Codes of Ethics, Community Involvement
Community Update, 2000
This document consists of ten issues (covering January through December 2000) of the Newsletter, "Community Update," containing articles on community and family involvement in education. Article topics include: grants to improve local schools in the 21st century; the Telephone Pioneers of America; learning resources on the World Wide…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement, Educational Technology
PDF pending restorationRichmond, Lucille McGraw; Bathurst, Effie G. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1951
This bulletin tells how the boys and girls and staff of the elementary school at Culloden, West Virginia, recently took a critical look at their school program and decided that they ought to do something toward having more useful, interesting, and meaningful learning experiences. Accordingly, they began to develop a curriculum which was different…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Schools, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Curriculum
