This model is an attempt to integrate a number of developments into a new form of secondary education with a distinctive purpose, process, and context that will have a powerful and beneficial influence on the maturation of adolescents and their transition to adulthood. (Author)

Measures to decrease vandalism include participation in planning by students, community members, and school personnel; principals with strong leadership capabilities; unobtrusive security measures; architectural solutions; and prompt preventive maintenance. (MLF)

Provides a critical analysis of community participation by black residents in urban education decision-making. The problem studied is that of social power: how the black community secures control of and then effectively manage community power. (Author/AM)

Critics of education tend to view the schools that we now have as the schools that we will always have. The authors in this article project "images of the future" based on the concept of reintegrating the community into all aspects of the educational process. (Editor)

Guidelines for starting a public school adult education program are presented and discuss the collection of basic data on community characteristics, community involvement, program administration and funding, curriculum, teacher hiring, program-school relationship, enrollment, policies, and community advisory board. (LH)

The junior college is an important means of bringing about communication and action at the local level. Junior colleges can link existing citizen participation activities, provide information to improve project designs, and enhance the effectiveness of community action. Possible community involvement activities for junior colleges are suggested in…

Presents a science activity that can be organized and made functional in a willing community to include an array of unique environmentally- oriented occupations and an abundance of natural resources. The activity will improve academic performance and attitudes of young students. (EB)

Amazingly positive results were obtained from an evaluation focusing on federally supported community education projects. Twenty projects were visited, and a total of 1,246 people interviewed. (Author/MLF)

Describes three National Science Foundation supported projects designed to study the use of two-way cable in the delivery of social services and to generally explore the social effects of interactive communications technologies. (JMF)

Describes a model of citizen participation that has allowed the community to include three of its concerns in the teacher contract for 1977-78. (IRT)

The feasibility of private liberal arts college involvement with adult and continuing education is examined in terms of a model, which sponsors an Employee Learning Program. Course offerings have received positive support from the college faculty and administration, cautious involvement by business and industry, and meager interest from organized…

Because of the violence and vocal opposition to desegregation the Boston school system drew national attention in 1974-1975. This paper attempts to develop a model for effective school desegregation and to compare this model with the desegregation events in Boston. (Author/RK)

Lists and annotates documents on the relationship between business/industry and career education which were screened from a computer search of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) collection by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Career Education. Includes information on ordering the documents. (MF)

Reports on a study in which a four-page weekly newspaper was published and delivered to 20 rural schools in Ghana; results indicated that recipients of the newspaper made literacy gains greater than those of control group students. (GW)