Describes the focus of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Science for Citizens program on getting citizens involved in scientific issues relating to public policy or decision making, and outlines the role of community colleges in facilitating NSF public service residencies, forums, conferences, and workshops, and in planning studies. (MB)

Describes the training process for the local takeover of the New York University--Reading (Pennsylvania) Consortium interactive cable television project for the delivery of social services to senior citizens. The process included hiring and training of staff, training of users, and creation and staffing of the organization needed to operate the…

Grassroots organizing, planning, and political strength have resulted in a community school. (Author/MLF)

Synthesizing five reports, this article documents growing support among educators for smaller, more diverse, age-integrated, and community-related schools characterized by both academic and action learning, and supplemented by experiential learning through business-industry work organizations, social involvement opportunities, and community…

Describes the Mt. Currie Native Teacher Education Program, based in a small reserve community 100 miles from Vancouver, Canada. Five basic issues involved in the development of the program are community involvement at the local level, incorporation of native language and culture, decentralization, entrance requirements and paraprofessional…

This paper examines the benefits of merging sociological methods by concentrating on the contribution of field observation prior to the designing of a survey study of black anti-Semitism. (Author)

Attempts to build a theoretical construct that defines the primary dimensions of adolescent alienation and to develop and test attitude scales to measure alienation in early adolescents. (Author/RK)

An outline of planning practices that result in better schools. (Author/MLF)

School boards should make no changes in the curriculum without first establishing a plan for communicating with the community. That plan should begin with board policy. (Author/IRT)

In Boston, court ordered school desegregation lacked support from both city officials and the Boston School Committee. In order to facilitate integration, community groups banded together to form daily debriefing sessions. The purpose was to identify and assess critical incidents and provide necessary information to the various districts having…

This article describes how three neighborhoods in the city of New York, through vigorous citizen leadership and active volunteers, converted decayed and abandoned slum areas into attractive recreational centers. (JD)

Suggests that if a new environment is conducive to positive interracial contact, the resulting changes will be positive. In this form of intervention two factors are important: the amount of time spent in the environment and the characteristics of the contact situation. (Author/AM)

Provides an analysis of the policy making process and examines various models and theories related to public and educational policy making. Minority writers have shown that in order for significant positive educational change to occur in minority communities there must be increases in the number of minorities in policy making positions.…

Describes four activities for secondary students which deal with teenagers and crime. States that through these activities students will be able to identify those who are commonly victimized, discuss community services for victims, talk about the causes of crime, and explain how teens can play a role in community crime prevention. (GEA)

Through the Child and Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP), the State of Alaska Department of Health and Social Services and a number of isolated Alaskan villages are addressing the mental health problems of Alaska's Native youths. (Author/BB)