Presented is the master plan for environmental education developed by the state of Michigan. The plan provides the framework, guidelines, and processes for coordinating and evaluating all environmental communication, education, and information activities in Michigan. It is both comprehensive and long-range, covering all geographic areas and social…

The emphasis in this annotated bibliography is citizen participation in education in the areas of decision making, policy development, and school governance. The focus is on the public school and school system rather than on private and parochial schools. One hundred fifty books, parts of books, and published reports are annotated, together with…

Drug addiction, alcoholism, malnutrition, lung cancer, venereal disease, and emphysema represent not medical failures but educational failures, since people suffering from them are either beyond help or already seriously damaged by the time they see a physician. School programs are students must begin early. Moreover, for health education to be…

This report presents findings of a study of the learning environment and community relationship of 15 Ontario, Canada community colleges. The findings are discussed under the headings of Geography; Major Orientation--Vocation or Community; Concern for Community; Special Publics and Special Programs; Media; The College as a Learning Institution in…

To achieve educational improvement, educational leaders must change from being uninvolved and apathetic to being involved and concerned, and plan for the future at the same time they work out the present. A council on the development of human qualities should be created within each community. This council would include all the behavioral, medical,…

The Boston Network for Better Education, with the primary aim of bringing together researchers and community groups seeking to improve schools, is described as to its approach in recruiting and utilizing volunteers. Volunteers were solicited from lists of educational researchers in the Boston metropolitan area, and an attempt was made to identify…

The steps to building a community playground are discussed. These steps include planning, materials and services needed, and the involvement of parents, teachers, and administrators as well as the children themselves. Pictures illustrate the text. (DB)

This search of the ERIC system, the Dissertation Abstracts, and the journal literature offers abstracts of 28 documents dealing with ways in which the profession can involve the community, thereby creating a more favorable counselor image on the part of the public. (CJ)

This is a summary of a conference that sought to define current issues relating to jobs and the environment in order to develop specific ways for unions, environmental groups, and other community organizations to work together for environmental quality and economic justice. The conference was intended to share information, develop skills, develop…

This chapter in "The Best of the Best of ERIC" contains 14 annotations of documents and journal articles on advisory committees, all of which are indexed in the ERIC system. Materials on student and community involvement, planning and utilization of advisory committees, and other topics are annotated. (DS)

School districts with experience in school closing emphasize the need for long-range planning and community involvement. (IRT)

Five stages are suggested as guidelines: legal knowledge, planning, written board policy, applications, and written priority-use policy. (DS)

The creation of a leisure atmosphere within a broader interpretation of art can only occur when artists and recreation personnel join forces to work with some understanding of the value of the art experience and the methods by which art expressions may be encouraged at the community level of involvement. (DS)

Arkansas, 50th of the states in education according to most national standards, is moving community education from a program to a process to accommodate change. (Author/MLF)