A non-profit corporation, called the Santa Cruz Community Service Television Project (S.C.C.S.T.P.), is proposed that would produce videotape for the purpose of intra-community communication. The corporation would use portable videotape equipment to record a variety of community programs, such as an ecological history of the Monterey Bay area, the…

Describes a small (305 students in K-12) school district in Iowa and its relationship to its community. (IRT)

Focuses on the early childhood care and education of Maori children in New Zealand preschool groups and the efforts made to help them cope successfully in both Maori and Western worlds. (CM)

In Spokane, Washington, an alcohol education program has developed prevention methods for alcohol abuse by getting the community, the schools and higher education to cooperate. Discusses the program's main components--teacher and community education. (RK)

This updated resource manual of racial diversity programs and activities should help promote racial reconciliation and understanding among diverse communities. It includes 72 new programs, and six new Indiana communities actually embracing this challenge have been included: Crawfordsville, New Castle, Plainfield, Seymour, Valparaiso, and Wawasee.…

The Education for All: Making It Work series is a major international interagency program designed to collect, analyze, and promote successful basic education projects in the least developed and developing countries. This project report describes the innovative work being undertaken in adolescent girls' camps in Lok Jumbish (Rajasthan, India).…

The Leadership in Public Affairs program at the College of New Jersey has begun to implement a developmental model designed to increase the community and political engagement of students. The primary tool to achieve these ends is public policy-oriented, community-based research (CBR). To date, two courses and a student fellowship based on…

The "Olympic Heritage" year in California provides an excellent opportunity to motivate students to examine their heritage from ancient Greece and to advance cross-curricular coordination. The very successful 1981-82 "Shakespeare Year" program can be used as a model. A proposed Olympic project is described. (RM)

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)

Discusses philosophical issues related to health education in developed countries: the role of the health educator, the Health Belief Model for the study of health behaviors, community involvement, and the relationship between education and coercion as a function of legislation. (CM)

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

Describes a program in which nursing home residents make biweekly visits to a near-by day care center, and day care children, on alternate weeks visit the nursing home. (CM)

Development of the placement program in Highland Community Schools included obtaining administrative approval, publicity, slide presentations for business and industrial groups, and resulted in a successful placement service that was not a significant cost factor within the school's budget. (TA)

Describes one urban education program that provides student teachers with firsthand experiences in urban settings and the observations and lessons learned by the participants. Implications for urban teacher-preparation programs conclude the report. (GR)

Public deliberation is a little-used concept that gets people talking about education and working together to improve it. Study circles discuss each solution's pros and cons, explore people's deeper motivations, weigh others' views carefully, work through conflicting emotions, and identify common ground. Pueblo, Colorado's process is profiled.…