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Meier, Kathryn S. – Health Education Quarterly, 1991
A survey of 1,085 seventh and eleventh graders assessed the impact of parents, peers, siblings, advertising, and sponsorship as role models influencing attitudes toward smoking and smoking behavior. Results suggest that intervention programs need to address nicotine addiction and be in place before grade seven. (JOW)
Descriptors: Community Influence, Early Intervention, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Influence

Long, Welsey; Vaughn, Courtney – Journal of Drug Education, 1999
A year-long qualitative study examined seven formerly-addicted alcoholic youth committed to recovery to determine how addicted youth become and remain sober. Bending to social stress, including racism and ethnic prejudice, three participants relapsed. However, personal commitment augmented by familial, community, spiritual, and educational support…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcoholism, Community Influence, Family Influence

Bellair, Paul E.; Roscigno, Vincent J. – Social Forces, 2000
Analyses of local labor market data and national longitudinal survey data on adolescents suggest strong effects of low-wage service-sector concentration and unemployment on the likelihood of both fighting and drug use among adolescents. Mediating processes included the patterning of family income, family intactness, and adolescent attachment to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Influence, Delinquency, Drug Use

Pedersen, Robert – Michigan Community College Journal: Research & Practice, 1998
Reexamines the origins of America's community colleges to include the leadership contributions of local residents, members of civic associations, and elected school trustees. These new histories will emphasize the influence of broad national forces such as industrialization and egalitarianism in stimulating student demand and public support for…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Influence, Community Leaders, Educational Finance
Howley, Aimee; Gholson, Melissa; Pendarvis, Edwina – Appalachian Collaborative Center for Learning, Assessment, and Instruction in Mathematics (ACCLAIM), 2006
The purpose of this paper is to examine how mathematically talented children in a disadvantaged rural community experience mathematics, both as a discipline and as a school subject. The aim is to find answers to questions such as: "What do these children think mathematics is?" "What value do they attach to the study of…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Student Experience, Disadvantaged Youth, Rural Education
Emory, Ronya; Caughy, Margaret; Harris, T. Robert; Franzini, Luisa – Journal of Community Psychology, 2008
To examine how neighborhood characteristics influence academic achievement, data were drawn from a community survey of low-income neighborhoods and linked with data on performance on standardized testing for third-grade students attending elementary schools in those communities. Results of multilevel logistic regressions indicated that probability…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Social Characteristics, Educational Attainment, Standardized Tests
Fanning, Jim – 1995
This digest examines the pressures that have led to school consolidation, what consolidation has achieved, the role of community in education, and the ways that school consolidation undermines that role. Belief in the principle of economies of scale and the pursuit of national educational goals related to economic competitiveness have led school…
Descriptors: Community Influence, Community Role, Consolidated Schools, Cultural Context
Longley, Laura, Ed. – 1999
This report responds to questions posed by school and community leaders throughout the United States about public school districts that have made competence in the arts, as well as literacy, one of the fundamental goals of education for students. Ninety-one school districts are featured in this report, but hundreds more were identified by state…
Descriptors: Art Education, Community Influence, Community Involvement, Educational Resources
Levi, Yair – International Review of Community Development, 1974
A discussion of regional community development through self-help programs in rural developing areas presents the need for a diversified system of institutions to ensure a developmental process based on qualitative rather than quantitative criteria. Available from: Editorial and Business Offices, Piazza Cavalieri di Malta, 2, 00153 Rome, Italy. (EA)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Cooperation, Community Development, Community Influence
Beam, Randal A. – 1984
A secondary analysis of data collected by Thomas Patterson during the 1976 presidential campaign was made to test three hypotheses: (1) respondents in a media-rich environment will show higher levels of political information holding than respondents in a media-poor environment, (2) differences in information holding levels between a media-rich…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Influence, Community Study, Environmental Influences
Vartabedian, Robert A.; And Others – Journal of the Oklahoma Speech-Theatre-Communication Association, 1984
A content analysis was conducted of 203 editorials from the "Daily Oklahoman" from the first six months of the 1980 presidential campaign. The analysis was based on two assumptions: (1) the tone of the 1980 presidential campaign essentially was set after only six months of official campaigning, and (2) the "Daily Oklahoman"…
Descriptors: Community Influence, Comparative Analysis, Conservatism, Content Analysis
Goodman, Yetta M.; Sims, Rudine – Elementary English, 1974
A more realistic understanding of reading problems might result from study of how disadvantaged people cope with problems presented by literate activity. (JH)
Descriptors: Bias, Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Influence, Disadvantaged Youth
Lane, Carolyn A.; Kelly, James G. – 1981
Presented in this paper is a framework to examine environmental influences on learning. The framework identifies factors from several environments--the home, the community, and the larger sociocultural context--and links them with school policy and operations. Methodological considerations important to further investigation of these environmental…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Influence, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Environment
Lombard, Avima – 1973
This report presents data concerned with: (1) the feasibility of a home-based instructional program for disadvantaged 4 and 5 year old children in Israel, administered by non-professional aides, and (2) the effectiveness of such a program as reflected in (a) the academic and intellectual gains of children involved, and (b) the spill-over effects…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Influence, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Programs
Harvey, Lisa St. Clair – 1979
A comparative study of two types of media, a newspaper and a museum, reveals substantive differences in the ways each of these communications organizations alters the information which it presents to the public. Interviews conducted with spokespeople from the Washington Post and the Smithsonian Institution focused on three major theories of…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Influence, Comparative Analysis, Information Dissemination