A systems approach has been used to assess the needs of the education process and the purposes and roles of the members of the learning community. Roles have been interfaced and overlapped in the learning community. How the components of the model influence and change each other has been evaluated. Premises, assumptions, and constraints have been…

The primary purpose of this study was to explore the possibility of combining existing resources of the community and the community college system in an educational program that can provide maximum latitude for individual abilities and interests of students involved in the Chicano Studies area. Current literature on innovative programs in higher…

To further the development and refinement of a model to utilize paraprofessionals in conducting a needs assessment of disadvantaged youth for consumer and homemaking education, curriculum guides from the nine schools involved in the project were analyzed and pre- and post-assessment questionnaires devised and administered to the aides and teachers…

The purpose of this study was to gather and analyze data concerning the implementation of drug education programs in 14 selected Indiana senior high schools. It focused on several aspects of the drug education programs including the description of the type of program; the determination of need for the program; school policies related to student…

This essay discusses the need for reform of American public school education as part of a general process of social reform. The author argues that the old image of the school as a "factory" in which the student is regarded as a product to be processed must be reformed so that the school really does provide a quality education for all. The reform…

The REP contract with the National Institute of Education was through November 30, 1975. Under the contract terms the REP was to develop a set of RFD Strategies to strengthen the problem-solving capacities of rural school systems, communities, classrooms, and families. Defined as community, school, learner, support agency, and family centered,…

The author reports on a community studies course which gives students a chance to taste adult responsibilities. (Editor)

The focus of this article is to examine selected approaches to heart health education, to describe a program the Heart Attack Prevention Program of the Chicago Heart Association is designing and implementing in heart health education, and to make recommendations concerning future development of health education programs by other agencies. (Author)

The author describes the Wisconsin Lake Management Program, the conflict between economic growth and environmental quality, and the role of the University of Wisconsin-Extension in a nontraditional area of public service education in bringing together county agents and lakeshore community leaders. (MF)

Describes a program in the Bellevue (Washington) public schools in which elementary and middle school teachers and students raise coho and Chinook salmon in the classroom and later release them into a nearby stream. (TW)

A two-week summer institute for non-art teachers sponsored by the Philadelphia Museum of Art is described. Participants learned about the visual arts in order to enhance the teaching of subjects other than art. Teachers had to develop a classroom project that would demonstrate what they had learned at the institute. (RM)

This article reviews critically the published behavioral approaches for the reduction of nonconfrontive stealing behavior in school-aged children. Treatment approaches discussed in this paper include aversive and positive contingency management, parent-training, self-control, as well as other interventions aimed at prevention of stealing in…

This paper examines the relationship of a town-supported mental health program and the town's public school system. Highlighted are the variety of problems which develop and strategies adopted to resolve the problems. (Author)

This paper presents a family of studies associated with a large-scale evaluation conducted to assess the impact of research-based models and promising strategies on non-cognitive and cognitive school indicators. In a partnership between community-based organizations and a large urban public school district, project SHIELD provided services to…