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Bruss, Lyle R. – 1975
To explore the issue of local control over public education, five major questions have been identified and followed by responses from a variety of sources that depict existing conflicts and diversity in opinion. The responses illustrate that resolutions of the local control problems are uncertain, not due to lack of direction by participants, but…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Citizen Participation, Citizen Role, Community Control
Agger, Robert E.; Fashing, Joseph J. – 1969
A random sample of the population in each of five Oregon cities was interviewed in 1964 and 1966, to assess the impact on citizen support for the schools of a series of innovative educational programs for the culturally deprived. In general, a change to more favorable attitudes toward the programs was found among both the citizens at large and the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Community Involvement, Community Support, Community Surveys
Gregory, Marion, Ed. – 1969
This volume contains the proceedings of a conference of social scientists and ministers on "Religion and Social Change" held at the North Carolina State University (Raleigh). Five seminars were held on the topics of (1) economic progress; (2) the distribution of income, status, and power; (3) the local community decision-making process;…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Bibliographies, Church Programs, Church Role
Sendor, Benjamin – American School Board Journal, 1986
Board members should learn from two court decisions about the limits the First Amendment places on chain-of-command policies. Employees who have complaints about matters that affect the public may not be prohibited from bypassing the superintendent and coming directly to the school board. (MLF)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Policy, Court Litigation
O'Brien, Leigh M. – 2003
Based on the experiences of a participant observer (weekly playground volunteer) over the course of one school year, this paper recounts the experiences of first through third graders during recess and discusses the importance of outdoor play for providing children an opportunity to speak and act unfettered by adult expectations, thereby promoting…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Needs, Discipline
Delpit, Lisa, Ed.; Dowdy, Joanne Kilgour, Ed. – 2002
This book explores the many Englishes that are spoken in the classroom and the layers of politics, power, and identity that those different forms carry. There are 12 papers in three parts. Part 1, "Language and Identity," includes: "Ovuh Dyuh" (Joanne Kilgour Dowdy); and "Ebonics: A Case History" (Ernie Smith). Part 2, "Languages in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Black Dialects, Black Students
MacGregor, Mariam – 2000
This facilitator's guide and student workbook package includes a high school curriculum designed to establish a foundation for adolescent/young adult leadership education programs. It targets diverse, at-risk teenagers, presenting an adaptable and broad-based perspective of leadership. The facilitator's guide takes instructors and students through…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Communication Skills, Consciousness Raising, Creative Thinking
Fretwell, E. K., Jr. – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 1995
These guidelines for college and university governing boards concern the selection of and relations with interim college presidents, and are based on interviews with 52 interim presidents, including some who have served in that position more than once, and 20 other college and university personnel in 20 states. An introductory section outlines…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Popkewitz, Thomas S. – 1998
This book presents information from a study of Teach for America, an alternative teacher education program that recruits and trains people with degrees in fields other than education to work in urban and rural schools with chronic teacher shortages, poverty, and minority students. The book is an effort to understand how different discourses of…
Descriptors: Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography, Higher Education
Brunner, C. Cryss – 2000
Though less reliant on military images, women administrators have also used, and been required to use, battle models of leadership. Those who operate under different leadership assumptions have only recently received professional acceptance. The work of Carlos Castenada reveals how the Yaqui Indians trained their spiritual leaders (their…
Descriptors: Administrators, Collegiality, Cooperation, Decision Making
Hones, Donald F. – 2000
This paper seeks to build on the growing body of literature demonstrating the value of a dialogical process in second language learning, especially in work with students who are not part of the dominant cultural or linguistic group. It identifies and describes the ways in which bilingual secondary students engaged in dialogical processes begin to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Bilingual Education Programs, Dialogs (Language), English (Second Language)

Muschel, Irene – Education, 1979
Describes the insecure, control-hungry personality often found in principals and the dependent personality often found in their faculties. Explains how these two personalities affect a school and its students, who can learn freedom and independence only from a free and independent teacher. (SB)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Classroom Environment, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education

Weinacht, Paul-Ludwig – Paedagogica Historica, 1997
Compares the reeducation efforts of post-war Germany with the role played by education supporting the German reunification with East Germany. Examines parallels involving autonomy and self-determination with the earlier Bavarian controversy. Concludes that Western-style educational reforms alone will not be able to create pluralistic societies in…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Democratic Values

Placier, Margaret – Action in Teacher Education, 1996
An action research project emphasized the centrality of teachers' values in teaching decisions. After identifying grading papers as a source of tension, a teacher opened decisions about grading to democratic decision making, resulting in more positive professor-student relationships, more emphasis on learning, and improved student evaluations of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Democratic Values, Education Courses, Educational Sociology

Sanderson, Von; Allard, Andrea – Australian Educational Researcher, 2003
A South Australian research project examining assimilationist frameworks in Aboriginal education sought to empower the rural Aboriginal community through participation in the project. Issues that emerged included the influence of funding on research for social change; the shaping of knowledge/power relations through project design and…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Acculturation, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences