How can a busy teacher help parents sort through the (often misleading) public conversation on education to understand what truly are sound practices in the classroom? This book, which contains interviews of practicing community organizers, lays out a step-by-step plan for teachers to adapt the tried-and-true strategies of organizers working in…

This bulletin focuses on four restorative conferencing models within the juvenile justice system: victim-offender mediation; community reparative boards; family group conferencing; and circle sentencing. The bulletin first describes each of the four restorative justice models, presenting information on background, concept, procedures and goals,…

The 1990 election of Dona Violeta Barrios de Chamorro as President of Nicaragua marked the end of the Sandinista era and the return of U.S. foreign assistance the following year. Education was prominent in the U.S. assistance package. Since early 1994, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission to Nicaragua has funded a…

Described the development of the Communiversity, a school designed to fulfill the post-secondary needs of the community through a systematic process of identifying a school curriculum by finding the needs of the community and placing them in some hierarchy of priorities. (Author/RK)

Career education programs involve community people and agencies. Some partners are state consultants, university staffs, advisory committees, and the home. Cooperation of the agribusiness community is emphasized. Coupling of structured curricula and occupational experiences gives the student a perspective on the world of work. (MS)

The Russell Report on adult Education in England and Wales is reviewed. (MS)

I/D/E/A's Individually Guided Program pulls together promising practices and new concepts to make a school "everything it could be", claims the author of this article. He describes the elements of this program and how a school can consider adopting it. (Editor)

One main hope for reform in public schools lies in the emerging third force of parents and citizens. Citizen influences in educational decisionmaking taps new ideas and energy, and provides leverage to bring about reform in improving the quality of services. Describes some changes the third force has brought about. (Author)

Questions the effectiveness of decentralization of New York City school administration in delivering quality education because of local community boards' susceptibility to political pressure and patronage. (SF)

Reviews the attempt of the Rochester (New York) City Schools to establish a program of community involvement and information on three different occasions when specific integration proposals were being discussed. (Author/JM)

Describes the used of community councils as instruments for continuous and consistent community involvement in the schools. Considers the rationale, function, role, and membership of community councils. (Author/DN)

Speakers used within a one year period in a high school are recounted; means of locating speakers are suggested and reactions from school and community are summarized. (KM)

By establishing a learning resources center'' for children with special education problems, Bellwood Avenue School in Linwood, New Jersey, has begun the slow process of bringing these youngsters back into society, teaching them to operate and deal with a society that helped to create their problems. The attempt is to substantiate the notion that…

Attempts to delineate some grounds for expansion of the knowledge base within the field of minority studies and more generally within sociology: minority research is seen as one acute instance of a general malaise in sociology. (Author/JM)