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Education in the Inner-City Schools: The Community Challenge
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Berry, Gordon L. – Journal of Black Studies, 1973
Two of the major challenges facing urban schools today are: (1) how they can offer productive educational programs for an ever-changing student population, and (2) their ability to broaden the base of community participation in the operation of schools. (DM)
Descriptors: Community Control, Court Litigation, Educational Change, Population Distribution
Education for Indians vs. Indian Education in Canada
Frideres, J. S. – Indian Historian, 1978
Descriptors: American Indians, Boarding Schools, Canada Natives, Community Control
Cashing in on Blackness: The Dilemma of Afro-American Education
Moore, Nancy L. – Freedomways, 1972
A detailed and critical review of an anthology edited by Nathan Wright entitled What Black Educators Are Saying.'' (JM)
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Studies, Community Control, Educational Change
Reforming Metropolitan Schools.
Ornstein, Allan C.; And Others – 1975
After presenting an overview of metropolitan schools, described as not successful in providing an adequate education for economically disadvantaged students, the authors examine four critical issues: compensatory education, educational accountability, decentralization and community control, and desegregation. While compensatory education has not…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Administrative Organization, Community Control
Considerations on Writing the History of Educational Reform in the 1960s.
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Lowe, Robert; Kantor, Harvey – Educational Theory, 1989
Outlined is an approach to educational history of the 1960s which incorporates the linkage between social, political, and contemporary educational history. The key theme cited is the interaction between the Black equal education struggle, the state structure, and the enactment of state-sponsored reforms that shaped popular protest patterns. (IAH)
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Influences, Community Control, Educational Change
Parent Participation in Urban Schools: Reflections on the Movement and Implications for Future Practice.
Schraft, Carol Malchman; Kagan, Sharon Lynn – IRCD Bulletin, 1979
This paper explores the relationship between low income parents and urban schools. Parent participation in urban schools today is said to have been institutionalized in forms set in motion by the Civil Rights movement. Three types of response to the failure of schools to respond to the 1954 Supreme Court decision calling for desegregation are…
Descriptors: Community Control, Compensatory Education, Desegregation Plans, Educational Change
New Models for American Education.
Guthrie, James W.; Wynne, Edward – 1971
Contents of this book include: (1) "New Models: The Need for School Reform," James W. Guthrie--a survey of some of the past successes of our educational system, an attempt to assess present public opinion about it, and an analysis of some possible explanations for its apparent inability to perform satisfactory; (2) "National Assessment: A History…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Control, Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged
Survival, Phase II: Unity Without Uniformity.
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Watson, Bernard C. – 1972
If blacks are to have any hope of success in producing favorable social and political change, they must be extremely wary of having too narrow a focus. Blacks cannot waste time in the search for ideological purity, closing out those who happen not to agree on every detail of a specific program. Blacks, together with the other oppressed groups of…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Community, Black Education, Black Power