Speeches and resource materials from the 1979 Teacher Corps "Community Council Chairpersons' Workshop" in Atlanta have been compiled in this sourcebook. Four major speeches, including one by then Teacher Corps Associate Director Robert Ardike, provide the rationale for community involvement in Corps projects, discuss the history and…

The document stresses that planning is essential to introduce arts programs into the schools and provides suggestions for the planning process. Elements of a good planning process include clearly stated goals and objectives, efficient use of existing resources, a survey of local conditions, involvement of influential school officials and community…

This is a bilingual guide to parental involvement and participation in bilingual education programs funded under Title VII and other Federal acts. The guide also outlines activities through which parents and the community may become involved in education. Various levels of participation are discussed along with impediments to participation. The…

Items in this bibliography were taken from the 1976-78 "Current Index to Journals in Education,""Resources in Education," and the "Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature." The original articles and documents were examined and the best ones selected and annotated for inclusion in the bibliography. The entries are…

The book presents theoretical considerations and practical recommendations concerned with school planning for gifted children who might not be identified nor have an opportunity to develop their mental capacities because of external influences such as cultural diversity, socioeconomic status, or geographic isolation. Six different approaches to…

Developed to assist libraries in serving the public, the booklet presents 32 simple, inexpensive projects designed to develop a more permanent communication between the Hispanic American community and the library. Each idea stresses community involvement and feedback, while taking into consideration the needs of the library itself. The objectives,…

Based on a series of mini-conferences, this monograph presents ideas and thoughts of members of the Rotary International organization on the concept of collaboration in career education. First, a brief description of Rotary International is provided. Next, several specific examples are given of ways in which local clubs are already involved in…

Traditionally, studies of educational innovations have based evaluations on accomplishment of officially-stated ends. This study, however, explores alternative theoretical frameworks for evaluation. Project Redesign took place in an upper-middle-class suburb with the pseudonym "Meadow City." The project was funded by the National Institute of…

Healthy and successful cities are built out of blocks and neighborhoods. Cities are too large and varied to be regarded or run as uniform entities. Block associations are proposed to be one of the major tools that are available for stabilizing and maintaining urban neighborhoods in a fashion that is both inexpensive and responsive to the needs of…

There is a general agreement that participation in the political arena is not uniformly distributed across population groups. However, existing literature has failed to provide sufficient data on the efficacy of alternative models for predicting and explaining political participation among black citizens. Data reported in this study were obtained…

The purpose of the study summarized here was to determine the extent of the efforts of community education programs to establish an effective, democratic problem-solving process among the citizenry of their communities. Questionnaires were collected from 215 school districts. The instrument was a 36-item questionnaire mailed to respondents.…

Proceedings are presented of twenty public hearings conducted by the advisory council for technical-vocational education in Texas. The objectives of the hearings were to provide an opportunity for citizens to give input as to needs, assessment of resources, and dialogue regarding technical-vocational, adult, and manpower programs. The first three…

THE MORRISTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT HAD FOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, GRADES K-8, AND A SINGLE HIGH SCHOOL. THERE WERE NO JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS. ONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, LAFAYETTE, HAD 95 PERCENT NEGRO POPULATION, AND THE OTHER THREE HAD FEWER THAN 10 PERCENT NEGROES EACH. THE EDUCATION AT LAFAYETTE SCHOOL WAS GENERALLY ACCEPTED AS INFERIOR TO THE OTHER…

FROM A LIST OF 2,260 BEGINNING DAIRY OPERATORS THE STRATIFIED RANDOM CLUSTER METHOD WAS USED TO SELECT APPROXIMATELY 10 PERCENT WHICH REPRESENTED 13 AGRICULTURAL REGIONS OF NEW YORK. THIS SAMPLE OF 223 OPERATORS WAS INTERVIEWED TO (1) DETERMINE THEIR PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS, (2) ASCERTAIN THEIR ACHIEVEMENT LEVEL WITH RESPECT TO SELECTED FARM…

THE IDEA OF A "BORN CRIMINAL" OR A CLASS OF CRIMINALS IS ERRONEOUS. SOME CITIZENS MAINTAIN THIS ATTITUDE AND THEREFORE LACK COMMUNITY CONCERN OR INVOLVEMENT, THEREBY REDUCING THE NUMBER OF RESOURCES AND COOPERATING COMMUNITY UNITS THAT A PROBATION OFFICER CAN DRAW ON. ANOTHER PROBLEM WITH RESOURCES IS THAT, EVEN WHERE THEY DO EXIST, THEY…