Community education, a process-oriented, community-based concept, should help bridge the gap between the school and the community. The linkage should prove that the schools belong to the people and that community resources need to be harnessed to serve the educational, social, and recreational needs of the people. Community education makes full…

The monograph is one of a series written primarily for professionals who work in career education or whose work relates specifically to aspects of career education. The purposes of the monograph are (1) to enter knowledge of the human services movement into the career education literature, (2) to describe the major characteristics of the human…

Psychologists are presently from two schools of thought, clinical and educational measurement. This paper describes a training program for psychologists which is relevant to the needs, interests, and current problems of the school and its community setting. (Author/KJ)

THIS PAPER PRESENTS A DISSENTING VIEW OF PREVAILING CONCEPTS OF EDUCATION AND APPROACHES TO EDUCATIONAL REFORM. THE AUTHORS STATE THAT REFORMS CURRENTLY DIRECTED AT AMERICAN SCHOOLS ARE GROUNDED IN CONCEPTUAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS THAT FAIL TO CONFRONT THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS OF THE AGE. THEY OUTLINE THE NATURE OF THESE PROBLEMS,…

The first of two parts of the career education primer focuses on the following aspects of career education: the need for the refocusing of educational systems toward career education; ways of incorporating career development elements, life activities, and a democratic ethic into career education programs; methods of including parents, families,…

The intent of this report of the Phi Delta Kappa Task Force on Compulsory Education and Transitions for Youth is to offer a comprehensive model for educational change--to provide both recommendations and procedures for far-reaching change in secondary education. The author emphasizes that simple revision of existing educational systems will not…

The report looks at the education service in Inner London as a whole and proposes developments designed to enable it to serve more fully the needs of the whole community. Attention is drawn to the important aspects of the community in Inner London and its problems. The report goes on to describe some of the new developments which have taken place.…

This report examines the Ford Foundation's efforts in developing and implementing alternative schools to the public schools or in providing seed money to new alternatives designed for public support. The publication begins with a look at the origin of the alternative school movement and then describes several kinds of school alternatives assisted…

This is a proposal to improve elementary and secondary education programs for students by increasing the extent of their involvement in their respective communities. It is also a set of recommendations on how to make such educational field experiences a central aspect of the curriculum in order to obtain maximum benefit from such involvement in…

It is held that the proposed Learning in Community (LinC) program, if introduced into Detroit high schools, will address the major concerns of Detroit citizens for educational achievement by significantly increasing the meaning and motivation the student brings to school. This plan was, it is reported, unanimously endorsed on November 7, 1973, by…

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

The problem of involving parents in programs of educational change is discussed. It is noted that comprehensive programs of parent involvement in public education will cut across social-racial-economic lines in the community. Precautions to be remembered by those engaged in school-community endeavors are given: (1) "Reality" for the individual is…

This document begins with clarifications of the State and the local responsibility for education. The main body of the report is given over to committee recommendations covering (1) school program and services; (2) professional development for board members, school administrators, teachers, and other noninstructional personnel; (3) educational…