The author states in the opening pages of this paper that community involvement in educational programming, whether for children's learning or teacher training, is an absolute necessity for the development of alternative strategies and solutions for present and future educational problems. The paper reviews some of the ongoing attempts to maintain…

Principals who see themselves as instructional leaders should not depend on outside stimuli for the impetus to improve science curricula. (Editor)

Youth Tutoring Youth is an after school (or summer) tutorial program in which 14 and 15 year old In-School Neighborhood Youth Corps enrollees earn money by helping younger children enjoy reading, writing and other skills of expression. The program involves community members as supervisors, aides, tutors and tutees. This manual is divided into two…

World of work experiences are best provided in real-life situations; consequently, a program of career education can be successful only with intense community involvement and cooperation. The K-12 program being developed by the Mobile County Public Schools System is described. (Author/KP)

A description of Samuel's Temple Day Care Center, one of New York City's two licensed 24-hour facilities. (RY)

The authors describe the sometimes painful process of developing a series of drug training workshops for a non-helath agency. They then discuss the principles and procedures they followed to achieve a successful result, and make suggestions for others who are planning drug education programs. (Author)

The Hudson River Museum's Environmental Arts and Science Division has published this booklet describing their model educational program, "TETE: Total Education in the Total Environment," a multidisciplinary approach to environmental education utilizing existing curricula. For conducting the program model communities strategically located along the…

Project TETE (Total Education in the Total Environment, a multidisciplinary approach to environmental education utilizing existing curricula, is described in this booklet. It is a community-wide strategy to enable all members of the community to discover the connecting processes which fashion the total environment, stressing that every community…

The Minneapolis Accountability Project was an effort of the Minneapolis Public Schools to provide greater accountability to the public by helping citizens evaluate school programs. Citizens' study groups were provided with staff to help them in a year-long study of a topic selected by a citizen's advisory board. Study committees met weekly…

Describes the nature and scope of deliberate involvement of adults in formal and nonformal part-time learning activities in Ontario. (Author/AV)

Interim evaluations of the Indianapolis Model Cities School Program point in positive directions in pupil performance and self concept. (Author/RY)

The article describes the Institution Special Education Program which provides educational services for approximately 750 institutionalized handicapped children. (PHR)

Penn Valley Community College, Kansas City, Mo. received an Education Professions Development Act grant that enabled it to establish a developmental training project for day care and nursery school workers. (Authors)

An educational program's quality and relevance can be guaranteed only if the needs of the students it serves are accommodated. To be certain that the program meets these needs, parents and students must be involved in its planning and implementation. One vehicle to achieve this goal is the parent advisory council. Prepared for the parents and…