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Hoggard, S. Raschaad – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Dr. Calvin Otis Butts, III is a towering figure in both the Black Church and in higher education. Dr. Butts is the only Black faith-based social activist to have led a famed house of worship and a respected public university concurrently for over two decades. Dr. Butts is the Pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church and was the longest-serving…
Descriptors: Activism, Churches, African Americans, Clergy
Bitz, Michael – Harvard Education Press, 2009
Based on a four-year study, "Manga High" explores the convergence of literacy, creativity, social development, and personal identity in one of New York City's largest high schools. Since 2004, students at Martin Luther King, Jr., High School in Manhattan have been creating manga--Japanese comic books. They write the stories, design the…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Content Analysis, Urban Schools, Literacy
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Fruchter, Norm – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2009
On a frigid Martin Luther King Day in 2008, some 800 parents and youth from neighborhoods throughout New York City rallied at St. Paul's Church in lower Manhattan, and marched to the headquarters of the city's Department of Education to launch a citywide middle grades school improvement effort. The rally was organized by the New York City…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Restructuring, Educational Improvement, Neighborhood Schools
Barrett, Jeanne C. – 1971
Contents of this guide include: (1) a contrast of a typical community health program's operation in 1955 and in 1971; (2) descriptions of three comprehensive health centers based on visits and interviews with administrative personnel: The Matthew Walker Health Center, Nashville, Tennessee; Community Group Health Foundation, Inc., Washington, D.C.,…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Development, College Curriculum
Evans-Tranumn, Sheila – Center for Educational Innovation - Public Education Association, 2006
Since 1993, New York City has a major advocate for the public school children at the New York State Department of Education: Associate Commissioner Sheila Evans-Tranumn. Herself a product of the New York City public schools, Sheila has a genuine and firm commitment to helping the public schools provide every child with a quality education. To…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Quality, Educational Facilities, Politics of Education
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1986
In 1984-1985, the second year of a three-year funding cycle, Project CHAMP provided instruction to 600 primarily Chinese-speaking students of limited English proficiency (LEP) in grades 9-12 at Seward Park, Washington Irving, and Martin Luther King, Jr. High Schools in New York, New York. Seward Park was the primary site of the project and most…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language)