Describes an interactive cable television system set up in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The modes studied are outbound voice and video with data return, and multipoint interactive video, each paired with concrete applications in the fields of adult education, parent education, and day care training. (JMF)

The story of the deterioration and clean-up effort surrounding the French Broad, which flows through North Carolina and Tennessee. (KR)

The Dallas school system involves varied segments of the community as partners in education. Representatives of eight different task forces meet monthly to report on individual activities and to plan mutual undertakings. (Author/MLF)

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)

Discusses issues in strengthening the collaboration of business and industry in career education, potential barriers to increased interaction, and ways of solving the problems. (MF)

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)

The Phi Delta Kappa Educational Planning Model is analyzed and proves to be a reliable technique for assessing educational goals when used by a group of students, teachers, and community members. (JD)

If the relationships between student violence and school size, community participation, and organizational climate can be determined, administrators may then be assisted in developing and implementing effective means of reducing school violence. (Author)

For every ten state parks jobs in Tennessee, three to four additional jobs are created in the local area. (JD)

One of the most important elements in the prevention of school violence and vandalism is the active involvement of the entire educational community. (Author/AM)

Discusses how to make a slide/sound program that students will learn from and that the community will appreciate. (KS)

Identifies sources of free instructional materials, speakers, and work experiences for students in secondary level economics classes. (AV)

Describes the Community Gardens project at Worthington Community College (Minnesota). The college makes unused land available to community residents for garden plots. (JG)

Asserts that lack of adequate training, costs in time, and the image of anthropology as a science are reasons why simulated field experiences offer promising alternatives to the risks of field work based on inadequate training in anthropology. Discusses class observation of unnarrated films, the use of classmates and visiting members of a…

Suggests that it would be wrong for courses to be set up in art colleges for town artists since out of that may develop a form of institutional stereotype. Town artists should be engaged as individuals, each one working in his own geographic and/or social area. (Author/AM)