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Stark, Stephen L.; Parker, Bobby E. – Journal of Physical Education and Recreation, 1981
Specific suggestions which could be made by a community education office for cooperative arrangements between the local school district and the parks and recreation departments include: (1) providing space; (2) sharing staff and equipment; and (3) coordinating the local school district's organized sports program. (JN)
Descriptors: Athletics, Community Cooperation, Community Education, Community Recreation Programs
Kerensky, Vasil M.; Logsdon, James D. – 1979
In 1976-77, the U.S. Office of Education funded a series of investigations of community education by various organizations. These studies were designed to provide perspectives on community education that were prepared by groups essential to the community education process. This publication introduces the concept of community education as a new…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Colleges, Community Education, Community Recreation Programs
National Governors Association, 2006
Rates of reading in the United States have been declining for at least two decades, with the steepest decline occurring among young adults. Fewer than half of adults read literature--poetry, plays, short stories or novels--in their leisure time. At the current rate of decline, literary reading will virtually disappear in the next half-century. Few…
Descriptors: State Agencies, Reading Programs, Literacy, Leisure Time