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Download full textFeith, David – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2013
This policy brief is the third in a series of in-depth case studies exploring how top-performing charter schools have incorporated civic learning in their school curriculum and school culture. The UNO Charter School Network includes 13 schools serving some 6,500 students across Chicago. Located in predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods, the…
Descriptors: School Culture, Charter Schools, Field Trips, Standardized Tests
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1970
Prepared for the White House Conference on Children (December 1970), this booklet reports on the Martin Luther King Family Center, one of 34 promising programs on childhood education. The Martin Luther King Family Center is now a privately funded, community-controlled demonstration service center with an all black staff. All of its programs are…
Descriptors: Black Community, Community Action, Community Education, Community Health Services
Oakes, Jeannie; Quartz, Karen Hunter; Ryan, Steve; Lipton, Martin – 2000
Education reform based on technical and rational processes often short-circuits reform because it is uncontentious, abstract, and provides educators with no legitimate ways to question the marketplace values and policies that drive much contemporary school reform. The perspective referred to as "betterment" is an alternative reform that…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citizenship Responsibility, Democratic Values, Educational Change
Meyer, Rosemary – 1974
A dropout survey was conducted in 1974 at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Education Center, Kankakee, Illinois, to determine why only 38% of its one thousand adult basic education students completed their studies and earned a GED diploma. A variety of formats was used to contact some of those who had been students between 1968 and 1974, including:…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Dropouts, Adult Education, Adult Programs
