The community is a source of support that the schools have overlooked for too long. Citizen participation in school decision making can lead a school into change. (Author/IRT)

Emphasizes parent involvement in the schools through Parent Teacher Associations (PTA) activities and the principal's role in helping parents become involved. (LD)

Truancy can be traced to four causes: an unsupportive school environment, lack of community support, chaotic family life, and personal deficits. School-based responses feature either academic incentives for good attendance, administrative consequences for nonattendance, academic consequences for nonattendance, or supportive services. Counseling…

Educational administrators should exercise leadership by incorporating the resources of the community into educational programs and meeting the needs of the community. (Author/MLF)

The role of the principal in community involvement is central to this article which discusses issues, problems, and strategies used by effective principals. Data are provided that reflect attitudes of citizens and principals toward the schools. (Author/LD)

Discusses research-based guidelines for designing effective service-learning programs. Success requires establishing clear goals, projecting desired outcomes, involving staff who support experiential learning, engaging administrators who support flexibility and staff development, involving community partners in planning, incorporating evaluation…

Only one overriding issue faces today's educators: the transformation to communication learning systems that will make schools obsolescent. Educators must involve their communities in "imagineering" the long-term future and dismantling the existing system, with its seven period days, ABCDF report cards, group-paced instruction, and…

Site-based management can be effective way to empower teachers and communities to improve schools. Success will ensue only by involving entire staff in change process, realigning power structure, and using time effectively. Third goal can be accomplished by rearranging school day to allow morning teacher meetings and 10:00-4:00 student attendance…

After undertaking a study of values education and ethical behavior in fall 1982, the Baltimore County (Maryland) Public Schools formed committees involving more than 2,000 people. Innovative projects involving computer ethics, coaches as role models, academic honesty, and "culture nights" to celebrate the community's ethnic backgrounds…

The Dallas school system involves varied segments of the community as partners in education. Representatives of eight different task forces meet monthly to report on individual activities and to plan mutual undertakings. (Author/MLF)

Being more than managers, school leaders can advance the profession by initiating a comprehensive curriculum development process that examines the future to determine needed skills and knowledge, redefines what constitutes an educated person and good teaching, creates a mission statement, and considers the need for structural or organizational…

Contends that a community-based support group can do much to enhance the art education program in a school district. Describes the organization and goals of one such group active in Tucson, Arizona. (Author/JM)

Describes a program underway in the Salt Lake City School District to ensure governance and community involvement with the schools. (LD)

Highlights what the literature says about conflict and its resolution. (IRT)