A description is presented of an intensive day and night effort involving the community, architects, and educators in the design of an urban school facility. Following a description of the background and setting of Dunbar High School, which is located in a Baltimore ghetto, the charette procedures used in formulating a schoolhouse design are…

As part of the Harlandale Independent School District career education program, a resource speaker's guide was compiled to aid the teachers in the discussion of a particular profession. All the businesses listed can be arranged according to work clusters, work areas, and contact persons. The guide breaks down the information into three columns:…

This report presents the background of the development of two questionnaires designed to gather information which would aid in evaluating family and community aspects of day care. The first questionnaire schedule is designed to be administered to parents of children presently enrolled in centers, and the second schedule is for parents of children…

A feasibility study conducted to examine the proposition of a new community college in the North San Fernando Valley is reported. Following a summary, recommendations, and introduction, findings are discussed as related to the following: Demography, Questionnaire Results, Advisory Committees, Community Participation, Current Enrollment,…

The goal of the Manpower Educational Services Project at the University of Houston was, in the short run, to explore using a university's capability and position in the community to contribute to the understanding and functioning of manpower programs in its geographic area. In the long run, it was hoped that a permanent center could be established…

Forms used for data collection in the Cornell-OEO Project fall into the categories of recruitment and selection, family assistant training, in-service training, supervisory records of family assistants, service-family contacts and visits, reports on visits to Cornell-OEO Project, work with groups outside the project, and analysis forms.…

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…

This paper is based on the author's direct experiences with the Hunter College TTT program, on visits to other TTT projects, and on conversations with personnel participating in them. Projects visited included those at Temple University, University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Washington University in St. Louis, San Fernando State College,…

The program focuses on the interaction among roles, aptitudes, and instructional functions of teachers. The goals of the program are to 1) train pre- and inservice teachers to work in instructional teams, 2) improve pupil achievement, 3) involve the local community in all phases of team activity, 4) develop a curriculum to train teachers to work…

The traditional educational structure requires the teacher to be part bookkeeper, part clerical assistant, and part psychologist, among other roles, while his salary scale is based on length of service. Differentiated staffing offers ways of changing this pattern. The details of differentiated duties are largely a matter of local option and…

This planning bulletin presents the goals and priorities that the New York State University Regents consider to be the major statewide concerns for post-secondary education in the years ahead, and it is intended to be a guide for the development of the 1972 master plan by the State's institutions of higher education. Part I of the bulletin sets…

Previous school-community research in American Indian communities has demonstrated that "isolation" or lack of communication between school staff and community parents has contributed to the failure of educating American Indian children. To validate this research in the Southwest, a diary indicating the out-of-school activities was…

This pamphlet, part of the National Reading Center Volunteer Reading Tutor Program, presents information for the use of a local coordinating committee. The contents include: a volunteer reading tutor program, how the National Reading Center's program works, the local coordinating committee, membership and functions of the local coordinating…

Resulting in part from a project designed to identify and describe comprehensive programs of excellence in career education, this booklet is the ninth in a series describing current, successful career education practices. Intended for teachers, this monograph discusses ways in which schools can involve the community in a career education program.…

This document is a progress report of the University-Urban Interface Program at the University of Pittsburgh, a program of university involvement in community activities. The introduction concerns the progress made in data collection, analysis, and presentation of results. The second section deals with the progress and outcomes of various minority…