Successful planning for public education requires taking into account the realities of the political world. Review of the success of the Illinois Board of Higher Education in policy proposals. (KJ)

New senior high school in Little Falls, New York, has space for all the innovations educators dream about. (Editor)

This round-up article on campus design includes features prepared by architects George E. Shear and Associates, Earl R. Flansburgh, Key Kolb, along with an interview with Christopher Arnold of Building Systems Development and an article by Sidney G. Tickton, executive vice- president of the Academy for Educational Development. (I)

This paper offers some practical suggestions and techniques in dealing with organized opposition to sex education and family life education programs. (BY)

Reviews the literature on school closing and discusses organizational, social, and political factors that determine which schools close and which remain open in New York City. Considers data from the 1970s and projections for the 1980s. (GC)

Describes a study which focused on two aspects of the significance of employing parents as teachers aides in schools with educationally and socially disadvantaged children: (1) the problem of satisfying educational requirements; and (2) the approach of new career innovations to improve the community through the incorporation of paraprofessional…

Examines research on crime, fear of crime and victimization in the school and community. Suggests that crime and fear of crime should be viewed in a community context since high-crime schools tend to be in high-crime neighborhoods with a higher fear level. (JAC)

Six common barriers to the establishment of a community based educational model for moderately and severely handicapped students are identified, and solutions are recommended. The barriers are (1) limited staff, (2) transportation, (3) scheduling, (4) cost, (5) negative reaction to curriculum emphasis change, and (6) applicability to multiply…

Five community responses to unemployment are described: (1) retraining for California auto workers; (2) upgrading and retraining at Indian Meridian Vo-Tech, Oklahoma; (3) Greater Lowell Regional Vocational Technical School's high-tech training program; (4) metropolitan reemployment project, St Louis, Missouri; and (5) Trade Readjustment Act…

Two results of minority pressure for community involvement in educational decision making are (1) administrative decentralization and community participation, and (2) administrative decentralization and community control. However, regarding "community control," controversy abounds over whether elected public officials and professional educators or…

Discusses the problem of scientific illiteracy among our youth when there is a need for scientific literacy so that we can compete successfully in the world market. Indicates that cooperation among academia, the private sector, government, and the military is one of the keys to success. (JOW)