Secondary students in the New Haven, Connecticut schools are offered a community high school program as an alternative to traditional education. The program is committed to three basic goals: (1) building student skills; (2) increasing student motivation to learn; and (3) encouraging students to become responsible, independent members of society.…

A 10-point plan based on concepts established by the First National Conference on Career Education, 1973, has been examined by a joint committee of the Prince George's County, Maryland Chamber of Commerce and school system. Concepts outlining current and recommended activities include: (1) exchange programs between business/labor/industrial…

The monograph is one of a series written primarily for professionals who work in career education or whose work relates specifically to aspects of career education. The purposes of the monograph are (1) to enter knowledge of the human services movement into the career education literature, (2) to describe the major characteristics of the human…

An experiment was conducted to demonstrate the feasibility of using the teaching computer as a medium for involving people in community planning. A program on environmental issues was presented on the PLATO system to a non-random sample of citizens of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Civic and government leaders and interested citizens attended…

The study is designed to assist police and other law enforcement agencies, as well as local government officials, in planning new burglary prevention activities and modifying existing ones. Information was compiled from (1) a survey of 50 United States police departments, (2) site visits to 12 departments with operating burglary prevention…

The Center/Satellite PPS program was designed to train new professionals and was one attempt to provide urban and minority populations with more effective educational services. An essential aspect of the program design is that it deals explicitly with cultural differences, partly by the emphasis on input from the many populations it is designed to…

This publication describes a pilot community based educational and support program for family day care. Program components include: a resource center and meeting place for family day care providers; informal weekly adult education programs (with planned activities for children); staff training; an 8-week certificate course for family day care…

Presented in the annotated bibliography are 123 print and nonprint references (1962 to 1975) which document innovating efforts for reintegrating mentally retarded people into the community. It is explained that the references have been compiled from mail surveys, computer searches of national information systems, library handsearches and a…

Provided is a practicum report on a travel training program initiated at the Ray Graham Training Center (Chicago, Illinois) for 40 trainable mentally handicapped young adults. The center is described in terms of the geographic area and clients served, staff roles, parent role, and curriculum. It is noted that a prime impetus for the development of…

In 1967 the Head Start Evaluation and Research Center at Boston University initiated a project aimed at devising and assessing new clinical approaches to primary and secondary prevention of emotional disturbance in preschool children. The growth of "Black Power" plus a year of experience resulted in the making of several changes in the…

The Woodlawn Organization (TWO) is a community organization on the south side of Chicago which grew out of cooperative efforts of clergymen in the area, members of the Greater Woodlawn Pastor's Alliance, in 1959. TWO's approach to community problems, influenced by the thinking of Saul Alinsky, was directly to confront unfair business practices,…

Learning outside the school has implications for students and teachers as they reach beyond the limited sphere of the classroom. Students should see connections between academic subjects and work, develop insights into the community, develop independence, work with adults other than their teachers and parents, view possible career areas, function…

This project was implemented in response to an increasing need for a preventative approach to mental health problems in elementary school children. The major purposes of the study were to: develop a package of affective educational materials; train classroom teachers in the philosophies and techniques of the program; and implement and evaluate the…

This handbook contains broad guidelines to assist both businessmen and educators who are interested in increasing industry-education cooperation through the creation of an Industry-Education Counicl. This guide is part of a series of reports designed to encourage the participation of businessmen in areas such as school management, curriculum…

This thesis focuses on the feasibility of using community school councils as tools for increasing lay participation in school planning. The report describes community school councils as either those lay groups recognized and encouraged by the school, or the independent committees spawned by conditions in the community. Guidelines are provided for…