This monograph considers 12 questions which could provide guidelines for local administrators and school boards to follow in considering the concept of differentiated staffing: 1) What are your instructional objectives and is the proposed staffing pattern related to these objectives? 2) Will the proposed new patterns provide for continued…

This report describes a demonstration project at Tuskegee Institute of interdisciplinary research that focused on small town development. The goals were the involvement of faculty and students in the practice of research, the stimulation of interdisciplinary thinking and planning, the involvement of faculty and students in the affairs of the…

Deals with incorporating community skills into the field of education using a non-formal educational framework and active participation by young people and families. (NH)

The Princeton Community Tennis Program, which was started and maintained by volunteers, is described. (RC)

It has been said that we live today in a spiritual vacuum where the old values have been discarded and no new values have been discovered to take their place. That is a critical situation that community could help to alleviate. (Author)

More and more communities are rallying together to solve their own problems. These broad-based initiatives are illustrations of the international healthy communities movement. The healthy communities movement emerged from the World Health Organization in 1986 and has quickly spread across the globe. A cornerstone of the movement is the Ottawa…

Literature on the national poverty war is examined, focusing on concepts of community action and resident participation as contributors to adult education of the poor for improved social and civic competence. The literature is found to demonstrate positive, though limited, aspects of participation as civic education. (AG)

Penn State students helped a West Virginia county express its heritage of natural beauty. (PS)

This is a position paper prepared by a group of New York University health educators containing recommendations for improving health education and services. (JA)

The article describes in the first person how obstacles were overcome to accomplish the development of a leadership training program for low income people (mostly minority groups) in a city of 40,000. Course content, time and location of course, and training methods were important factors in the course design. The support of minority-group leaders…

Parent Visitation Night'' is a new approach to the Open House that overcomes the resistance of parental visitation and guarantees successful and meaningful community involvement in the schools. (Author)