A remote Australian town's initiative to develop an Internet cafe was based on a foundation of community empowerment and capacity building. The project's failure illustrates factors that inhibit community control: overstretched local resources, failure to understand impact on existing social infrastructure and social networks, and lack of…

Responds to criticism of own research involving mental abilities testing of American Indians. Outlines and analyzes the author's systematic 10-year program of such research. Makes recommendations for future, tribally directed studies. Contains 31 references. (SV)

The political evolution of a Cleveland suburb form a narrowly defined community to one in which pluralism is accepted and respected is described. (DE)

Article considered three political determinants that should be kept in mind when deliberating upon accountability. (Author/RK)

Veteran principals are among the victims of "community control," Chicago style. Presents a chapter from the "Krug Report" published by the Chicago Tribune, with observations, inpressions, and educated insights based on many interviews, visits, and long-time contacts with schools. Attempts to help the public better understand…

The future stability of the Los Angeles school district as a single entity is questioned. Various problems that add instability to the system's present decentralization plans are discussed. Among them are achievement and academic performance. (Author/AM)

Political developments with respect to two public school systems are examined in terms of two theoretical models. When viewed from the analytical perspective used here, similarities between the two cities with respect to progress in decentralization begin to emerge.

An innovative model for community control of a preschool program joined community resources with university skills. Parents and students formed teaching teams for 39 children aged three to five. The community made ultimate program decisions; the community and the university together administered program decisions and planned curriculum; and the…

Conducted through a survey of several communities using videotaped interviews and an examination of the general Canadian media scene, the study undertaken for this report attempted to determine the current level of awareness and knowledge of Albertans concerning the use of cable television (CATV) for community programming. Since the study…

In the belief that "the spread of technological development and the attendant rapidly changing environment creates the necessity for multi-source feedback systems to maximize the alternatives available in dealing with global problems," the author shows how to participate in the process of alternate video. He offers detailed information…

The following is taken from the Publisher's Note: "Long out of print since it was originally published in 1942 by the U.S. Government Printing Office, this classic work on Federal Indian law, and the whole legal history of Indian-white relations, is here republished in a facsimile edition. It is, as Felix Frankfurter observed, the only book…

This report strongly suggests that legal action for better schools does not obviate the need for organizational resources and skilled community organization. If the children of the poor are to have quality education, they will need advocates outside the ghetto, but they will also need an organized community. (Author)

Notes that although the concept of integration, decentralization and community control have particular contemporary meanings acquired through recent court decisions and urban controversies, these same concepts were meaningful and important to blacks in Brooklyn almost 100 years ago. (Author/AM)

Discusses the practical considerations that face Indian communities as they begin to move toward transforming the rhetoric of "Indian control" into the reality of quality education. (Author)

Cites the rush to administrative decentralization and community participation. Suggests that controversy arises when school critics want to move to community control, a concept that has not yet accomplished what advocates claim for it. (JF)