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The Boston Schoolyard Initiative: An American City's Approach to Sustainable Schoolyard Development.
Download full textMeyer, Kirk – 1997
This presentation describes the development process behind the Boston Schoolyard Initiative: a 5-year, inner city, community-driven initiative to transform neglected and unwelcome schoolyards into active centers of school and community use. Each phase of the initiative is discussed from community organizing through design, construction, and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Development
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education. – 1994
As part of its consideration of the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the House Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education met to address the need to maintain schools as safe learning environments. The Safe Schools Act of 1993 had been introduced as the administration's effort to help deal with…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
Levine, Daniel U.; Meyer, Jeanie K. – 1973
The Model Cities Educational Priorities and Program Development (EPPD) Project involved two elementary schools located within the Model Cities areas of Kansas City, Missouri, during the 1972-3 school year. The stated objectives of the program were as follows: (1) Identify the educational needs of inner city children in America in the 1970s, with…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Compensatory Education, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Needs
Wingel, William J. – 1976
This practicum report presents a detailed account of a project by an elementary school principal in designing, implementing, and evaluating a comprehensive improvement program to alleviate problems which have occurred as a result of the transitional state of the neighborhood at the Clara Barton Public School, in the school district of…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Strategies, Community Characteristics, Community Involvement
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1987
During 1985-86, its first year, the Comprehensive School Improvement and Planning process (CSIP) operated in 156 of 392 New York City schools identified by the State Education Department's Comprehensive Assessment Report (CAR) as most in need of improvement. CSIP offers a holistic approach to school improvement and planning, and is designed to…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Princeton, NJ. – 1988
Without good schools, none of America's hopes can be fulfilled. Since 1983, school reform has been at the top of the national agenda; however, there is a disturbing gap between rhetoric and results. After travelling to some of the nation's largest cities and interviewing administrators and teachers, Carnegie Foundation representatives determined…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth
