FACTS ABOUT RACE AND THE SCHOOLS IN PORTLAND, OREGON, ARE PRESENTED. QUESTIONS WERE ASKED OF WHITE AND NEGRO RESIDENTS. ANSWERS GIVEN BY NEGROES INDICATE THAT THE NEGRO FEELS THAT HE IS EQUAL TO THE WHITE, THAT HE SHOULD LIVE IN INTEGRATED RATHER THAN SEGREGATED NEIGHBORHOODS, AND THAT NEGRO CHILDREN SHOULD ATTEND PREDOMINANTLY WHITE SCHOOLS.…

All principals in the elementary, middle, junior high and high schools of the Atlanta Public School System were requested to select one school project involving human resources which they considered to be significant and successful. The information solicited about each project included grade level, number of resource persons involved by category,…

Any program or division which does not have its own faculty must relay on the faculties of the schools and departments to provide quality education for its students. The Honors Division is in this category. Having no faculty of its own, the Honors Division must find methods of gaining support from the faculty and must encourage them to add a…

Some common explanations for the difficulty of transferring newly learned teaching skills and strategies into classroom practice are questioned, and other hypotheses are proposed. Coaching, by peers, supervisors, principals, college instructors, or others, is presented as a strategy to implement innovation in the classroom. (Author/MT)

Quest is a school-improvement program based on principles of inquiry, collaboration, and action research. Quest supports and investigates ongoing school-improvement efforts through rallies, summer symposia, a Scholars program, visits to participating schools, communication via listserv and mailings, and the creation of a Quest network of schools.…

Describes the development of a new transformational vision for Albion College in Michigan, which led to a community envisioning process off campus. The result was a new city-college partnership designed to promote the development of the city of Albion as "The Smart Community." (EV)

Presents two methods for assessing the scholarship of engagement at the institutional level: (1) Comprehensive Assessment of the Scholarship of Engagement (CASE), a systematic method that compiles information about service learning and community engagement, identifies campus strengths, and prioritizes planning areas; and (2) an institutional…

The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the relationship between school-, neighborhood-, and family-level resources and children's academic achievement, and to identify the role played by father involvement in mediating contextual influences on children's learning. A subsample of 1334 families with children between the ages of 5 and…

Factors inhibiting Hispanic parental involvement in non-metropolitan area schools were studied. With the mandates of No Child Left Behind intensifying the need to improve the academic achievement of all at-risk groups of students in American schools, and with the relatively new phenomenon of large numbers of Hispanics settling in non-metropolitan…

This report presents results of the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in reading and mathematics at grade 12. Results for students in the nation and, for the first time, in the 11 states that volunteered to participate in the 2009 state pilot program are reported as average scores and as percentages of students performing at…

This paper investigates how the learning environments and family dynamics differ if households have a child with a disability or a parent with a disability. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, results indicate that children with disabilities experience similar learning environments as other children, but have somewhat…

This paper focuses on the pedagogical responsibilities of parents and schools, as well as the care provided by socializing agencies and local communities. A review of the literature has been carried out on the tasks of schools and parents and the relations between education, parenting and care in a changing society in eight countries: the…

A study was conducted to review the progress that local CETA sponsors and LEAs have made towards collaboration. An analysis was made of early prime sponsors and LEA experience under YEDPA based upon the first three parts of a four-part evaluation conducted by the National Council on Employment Policy of YEDPA implementation in 37 CETA prime…

Describes a program devised to combine efforts of a child welfare agency and a public school system in controlling truancy. (Author/SB)