Author discusses the results of recent research on the phenomena of community power structure. (GB)

SOME OF THE FACTORS THAT HELPED ST. LOUIS' SCHOOLS TO INTEGRATE ARE PRESENTED. INCLUDED WERE ACTIVITIES OF KEY CIVIC AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIAL AGENCIES, WHICH WORKED TO CHANGE THE PATTERN OF SEGREGATION. ANOTHER FACTOR WAS THE FINE QUALITY OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN NEGROES AND WHITES ON THE SCHOOL'S PROFESSIONAL STAFF. THE SCHOOL…

This document is the final report of the Outreach Project, which is directed toward increasing environmental awareness and expanding the educational uses of the Tallahassee Junior Museum through the cooperation of Museum staff, a variety of community groups, and the Florida State University's environmental studies program. To meet the concern,…

Based on school visitation in Leflore County, Mississippi, interviews with first- and second-grade teachers, school social workers, and members of the central staff, the writer discusses the need for pre-school education in that county and evaluates the school program it relates to pre-school education. It is recommended that Project Head Start…

The conference had papers and discussion on the following topics: Section 1: Community Continuing Education (Adult, Continuing, and Community Education: The Shape and Promise of the Field; Community Continuing Education: An Alternative Resource); Section II: Community Services: The Community College Approach: A Symposium (Community Renewal…

This report draws on a series of conferences held to develop guides for labor-management cooperation at the plant level. These included six recent initiatives conferences held in cooperation with State University Institutes of Industrial Relations and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) and a seventh sponsored by the Commission…

The story of the deterioration and clean-up effort surrounding the French Broad, which flows through North Carolina and Tennessee. (KR)

A cooperative experiment among Pennsylvania rural communities and the University of Delaware and La Salle College, this course ("Re-Emerging Issues in Social Welfare: The Rural and Small Community") was developed to expose urban students to a rural environment and to utilize rural educational resources. (JC)

Suggests that it would be wrong for courses to be set up in art colleges for town artists since out of that may develop a form of institutional stereotype. Town artists should be engaged as individuals, each one working in his own geographic and/or social area. (Author/AM)

Discusses some of the advantages and disadvantages, as well as key points, in negotiating a lease for community facilities--particularly in churches--for child care programs. (Author/BB)

A discussion of one teacher's successful efforts to obtain foreign feature films for use as language teaching aids. (KM)

Child abuse is a national tragedy, taking the lives of three children every day and affecting millions of children and families every year. To mark the 20th anniversary of the first presidential proclamation of Child Abuse Prevention Month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect,…

Community development makes use of what is now called strategic thinking and strategic planning. One crucial step in this process is developing strategies (and the subsequent tactics). First, the community development practitioner must assess the situation thoughtfully, and find out what resources the community has available, what is achievable,…