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…

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

Prompted from several directions, the Stone Foundation sponsored this exploratory workshop on community self-help and mutual aid efforts. The purposes identified for the conference were: (1) to enhance the functions of self-help groups by creating new opportunities for them to learn from others; (2) to find ways to share more widely what is known…

Project Career Education K-10 (PCE/K-10) was designed to implement career education through a process of curriculum change, community involvement, staff attitude change, and program planning in the Portland, Oregon Public Schools. The Marshall High School Attendance Area was chosen as the site for implementing the project. This included one…

This document is both an interim evaluation report and application for the continued funding of the Milwaukee Public Schools' environmental education program. The project is a comprehensive environmental education program which has developed into the Master Plan for Environmental Education intended to prevade the K-12 curriculum. The evaluation…

Career education at Roosevelt School District, Phoenix, Arizona, prepares students for the world of work with a coordinated and innovative program. (MS)

Describes a comprehensive Early Childhood Services program recently introduced in the educational system of Canada's Alberta Province. The aims of this program are to foster child development, parent participation, and community involvement. Health and hygiene services are incorporated in the program along with social welfare and educational…

A two-year project was conducted to develop, implement, and evaluate a model demonstration career education program in a large urban setting (Detroit Public Schools). Major activities involved in the first year (phase I) included the following: (1) selecting fourteen target schools to be served; (2) determining the needs and specific career…

This document is a report of a U.S. team visit to France in 1977 to observe and study French educational facility design, construction, and utilization. The report is written by the individual team members and deals with elements of the educational program, particularly as it related to the building program. Some of the topics include educational…