One of the objectives of this study was to implement the school-community relations model of interaction to determine whether the specified patterns and processes were viable. Implementation began with a needs assessment, followed by an operational process involving four approaches: (1) a schoolwide focus on reporting pupil progress; (2) a…

This 1971-77 annotated bibliography published by the Committee for General and Technical Education, Council of Europe consists of: (1) reports on the Council of Europe symposiums on preschool education, and (2) summaries of papers related to the symposiums. Topics covered are: the links between preschool and primary education, teacher education,…

This paper describes the systematic approach utilized in the development of a survey instrument for use in a community assessment survey. The purpose behind the development of the survey instrument was to enable the Office of Research and Development at Central Florida Community College (CFCC) to determine by means of telephone interviews the…

Covered in this report are the main events that occurred in the Alum Rock voucher project between July 1974 and January 1976. Measures considered to be functioning effectively at the beginning of this time span were the concepts of alternative education, open enrollment, programs that vary their capacity in response to parent demand within the…

In order to ascertain whether the definition and delineations of the terms "community services" and "continuing education" adequately represent institutional concepts and goals with respect to these functions and to determine how well El Paso Community College met community needs, an in-depth review of relevant literature and a…

This task force report examines enrollment trends, school building utilization, school size, and school cost savings in the Madison, Wisconsin, elementary schools. Although the task force's study was confined to elementary schools, many of its findings and recommendations are applicable to middle and high schools as well. Enrollments in many…

Presents several ways--gathered from a variety of sources--to help prevent differences of opinion about textbooks from becoming full-blown controversies. (Author)

This testimony, by the General Counsel for the National Association Advancement Colored People before the May 1974 public hearings of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, discusses the case entitled "Jeffrey Hart et al Vs The Community School Board of Brooklyn, District 21", which has come to be known as both the Weinstein case…

Describes a workshop and pilot program in which over one hundred elementary school teachers attempted to procure an indepth awareness of the local community surroundings. The program was an attempt to further studies relating elementary science and social studies through "inquiry into an urban environment." (EB)

The purpose of this investigation was to identify some of the problems of black teachers employed in predominantly white public schools. (Author)

Presented at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (53d, San Francisco, February 28 - March 5, 1969).

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This report is based on a case study which examined the efforts of community organizations in Columbus, Ohio to strengthen citizen participation (through the use of networking strategies) in the implementation phase of school desegregation. The report describes interorganizational networks as a function of exchange relations. Specialization,…

Proposed in 1970 by Leon Jaworski, law-related education (LRE) became one of the most successful programs of the decade. According to this eleventh chapter in a book on school law, there are several reasons LRE is critically needed: law is a pervasive force in the life of every student; civics instruction characterized by platitudes and…