This brief booklet lists communication strategies identified at a 1999 national parent workshop by over 100 parents and family members of children with deaf-blindness called "Important Practices in Communication: Making It Happen at Home and in the Community." The booklet addresses four questions: (1) How can we facilitate and promote a child's…

This adult education curriculum, part of the Aprender Es Poder (To Learn Is Power) program, explores the themes of school success for Latino children, expands the work options and improves the working conditions of Latino adults, and identifies community issues. It is meant to be a resource for English as a Second Language Literacy and adult basic…

The mental health needs of youth in the juvenile justice system have received more attention at the federal level in the past 2 years than in the past three decades combined. The importance of the mental health issue is also being recognized at the state level. A number of factors have contributed to this change. They include: growing recognition…

To support faith communities in protecting teenage boys and girls from too-early sexual activity and teen pregnancy, the National Campaign To Prevent Teen Pregnancy's Task Force on Religion and Public Values has compiled these nine tips which summarize a wealth of experience and advice from faith leaders around the country. The members of the Task…

The pilot project in career education developed at the University of Maine at Portland-Gorham for grades K-6 is described. It is centered around the concept of the USOE's School-Based Model. (MS)

The major criticism of the Los Angeles decentralization plan is that, in effect, it adds an additional layer to the bureaucracy through which citizens must wade to get to the Board of education. Decentralization as it functions in Los Angeles is a creation of the Board of Education, and the Board claims that it cannot legally delegate its…

Article presented practical pointers on how to deal with the problems encountered in the community use of schools. (Author/RK)

Four-stage model is presented as a way of achieving diversity in the means and ends of education primarily through more educational planning at the local level. (HD)

Article explores the question of community involvement as "which" community. (GB)

Author describes with some winning practical advice, how schools can run successful campaigns for referenda. (GB)

Enlightened educators have for years recognized and promoted the need for meaningful community involvement in educational planning. The most desirable way of dealing with the general management and guidance of such planning is through the establishment of a districtwide steering committee or educational council. Case studies of four districts…

Believing that community education must begin to evaluate its own performance in relationship to processes designed to foster and enhance the development of the entire community, the author has devised 125 questions concentrated in 14 topical areas. Answers to such questions should provide guidelines for future plans and action. (Author)

The second of a two part series urging community involvement by the college press. (RB)

A dying school building, half a century old, recovers so dramatically and so economically that it receives national recognition. (Author)

A panel discusses the need for, and the problems of, societal involvement in planning programing for cable television. The panel members stressed the need for community self-help programs. (Other conference materials are LI 503071-503075 and 503077 through 503084.) (SM)