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Patterson, Harold L. – 1967
A survey is presented of the existing Taholah School, which is one of the few Indian schools administrated by an Indian board of directors. Numerous specific recommendations and proposals for the future are made. Areas discussed are the conflict and confluence of the Indian culture in the educational system, current curricular and classroom…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Culture, American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies
Oliver, Donald W.; Newmann, Fred M. – 1969
See TE 499 864, above.
Descriptors: Community Control, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation, Educational Philosophy
Fantini, Mario D.; Gittell, Marilyn – 1973
Demands for urban decentralization and community control are indexes of the inaccessibility, irresponsibility, and unresponsiveness of the institutions of urban government in the 1970's. How and why these institutions have become the focus of such widespread dissatisfaction can be understood only in the total context of urban politics in America,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Case Studies, Change Strategies, City Government
Brown, Frank – 1974
During the school year of 1972-73 a large Northern urban school district requested that a feasibility study for a community policy board to govern a junior high school be conducted. A committee was appointed to conduct the study. A part of the committee's task was to sample the opinion of students, parents, and teachers regarding: what should be…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Black Community, Black Students, Community Control
Findlater, Richard
This document describes the results of a seminar convened in England and attended by representatives of national, regional, state, and local cultural organizations from France, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. An overview of the status of decentralization in cultural programming opens the document. Diverging…
Descriptors: Arts Centers, Community Control, Cultural Activities, Cultural Centers
Carlson, Robert – 1974
To the extent that educators, local governments, and the public can serve the interests of capitalism and the entrepreneur--and only to that extent--will educators, local governments, and the public have an opportunity for access to privately controlled Cable TV....I would like to encourage educators, instead, to encourage minority groups,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Broadcast Industry, Cable Television, Commercial Television
Rainer, John C. – 1973
The testimony of John C. Rainer, Director of the American Indian Scholarship Program, before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Affairs (May 1973) examined the Senate's reduction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) appropriation for 1973-74. Rainer explained that the $19,938,000 requested for the year, $10,000,000…
Descriptors: American Indians, Budgets, Community Control, Educational Benefits
Zephier, Richard – 1973
This essay examines American Indian education from a historical perspective and analyzes the role of the school as an institution in an Indian community. Since the arrival of the white man in America, Indians have faced a world of cultural conflict. Throughout the history of Indian education, their values and way of life have been demeaned. The…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Boarding Schools, Community Control
Barraclough, Terry – 1973
Many parents and community members throughout the nation, dissatisfied with the education their children are receiving, are demanding a voice in the educational process. This demand is expressed in the movements for community involvement in the schools, community schools, and community control of schools. Twelve documents investigate the concept,…
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Involvement, Community Schools, Decentralization
Levy, Leah, Ed. – 1973
This issue of "Inequality in Education" comprises articles sampling perspectives of some attempts being made within the public school framework to gain a greater say in how and what children learn. The discussions are concentrated on efforts for (1) community control of Schools; (2) decentralization of school administration; and, (3)…
Descriptors: American Indians, Black Attitudes, Black Youth, Community Control
Demas, Boulton H. – 1971
When local school board members in New York City assumed office on 31 local school boards in 1969, this should have resulted in more responsive local boards with sufficient power to control local policy; but this was not the actual result. Specific examination of the decentralization bill, the politics of the election, and the election procedures…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Community Control, Community Involvement, Community Problems
YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, IL. Career Options Research and Development (CORD). – 1971
In this report, community control is examined at it relates to social and human service organizations. Community is defined at the agency which is the target of control. Community control is a major issue for non-white Americans who are increasingly concerned with owning and controlling those institutions that exist within the boundaries of their…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrators, Black Community, Community Control
Tyack, David B. – 1972
This book is an interpretive history of the organizational revolution that took place in American schooling during the 19th century, its politics and ideology. It attempts to assess how the schools shaped, and were shaped by, the transformation of the United States into an urban-industrial nation. It looks at the shift from village school to urban…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bibliographies, Bureaucracy, Case Studies
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity. – 1972
Contents of these hearings include: "The socioeconomic indicators of Michigan--implications for education"; "Accountability in education"; "A position statement on educational accountability for improved instructional services at the elementary and secondary levels in Michigan"; "Select Detroit Title I and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Control, Compensatory Education, Demography
Kennedy, Joseph C. – 1972
This report is presented in terms of issues and recommendations concerning the Federal role in school finance. Two major points of agreement emerged from the forums: (1) School officials, representatives of organizations, citizens, and parents agree that, if the urban schools in America are to survive, the Federal Government must take a strong…
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Development, Costs, Educational Finance
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