The function of community schools is to relate community needs to existing community resources and to offer programs only if no other educational institution can effectively offer them. Competition for students and programs between community schools and other community resources should be subordinated to an assessment of institutional capabilities…

Law enforcement officials, experts in public health, criminologists, educators, and youth offered testimony intended to help Congress understand the scope of the threat of guns and firearm violence to young people and the strains of the firearm problem on public and community services. A fact sheet points out that: (1) increasing numbers of youth…

Data from 83 Minnesota newspapers support the hypothesis that as communities become more pluralistic, their newspapers will report more conflict. Between 1965 and 1979, Minnesota saw an increase in population and proportionate increases in income from manufacturing and agriculture. During this period of growing pluralism, the amount of newspaper…

Authors presented a detailed example of users actively and successfully involved in the planning of an alternative school by means of a unique planning process. Their planning model is one which can be readily adapted to other settings and interest groups. (Editor/RK)

Challenges the assumption that elected school boards are more responsive to local community needs than are appointed school boards. (Author/DN)

A study investigated ways that adult educators might introduce educational activity into a community problem-solving situation and attempted to determine the influence of this activity on growth of the community-problem-solving group. Adult educators by definition included cooperative extension agents, social workers, community mental health…

The express purposes of this article are to discuss the assertion, which is made here, that in the United States the Spanish speaking surnamed (SSS) population receives mental health care of a different kind, of a lower quality, and in lesser proportions than any other ethnically identifiable population, and to offer some recommendations for…

A TOTAL OF 29 PROGRAMS IN TEN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN FLORIDA WERE FUNDED UNDER TITLE I OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACT DURING 1966 AND 1967. HUMAN RELATIONS AND MINORITY GROUPS, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, EDUCATION FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT, HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, AND EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY WELFARE WERE THE MAJOR…

The growth of individuals participating in community problem solving activities within a rural setting was the focus of this study. Using grounded theory methodology, data was obtained from literature, interviews with participants in four rural community problem solving groups, and one participant-observation study of a rural community problem…

In order to demonstrate to the Federal Communications Commission that they were serving the needs of the public the two public television stations in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota) commissioned an interview study of "voiceless" groups in the community. The first step was to identify those groups which had common…

Designed to discover the influence of rapidly increasing commercial recreation on social interaction, this study dealt with the nature and changing significance of community institutions. The study was conducted from 1963 to 1965 in the emerging community of Osage Beach, Missouri, as a basis for the author's doctoral dissertation. Data for the…

The problem of providing adequate health services for rural America is many fold and will require the combined efforts of everyone to approach a satisfactory solution. A broad overview of all facets of the problem is presented. Listed and briefly discussed are goals which must be achieved to insure permanent improvement. Three general directions…

Community service is the most neglected of academic functions, largely because involvement in community programs is less likely to be rewarding to the scholar than research and teaching activities. Community service activities must be regarded as intrinsic to the functions of an urban college, especially since these projects can, in turn, generate…

This questionnaire assesses drug use practices in high school drop-outs. The 79 items (multiple choice or apply/not apply) are concerned with demographic data and use, use history, reasons for use/nonuse, attitudes toward drugs, availability of drugs, and drug information with respect to narcotics, amphetamines, LSD, Marijuana, and barbiturates.…

Dr. Gabor, the inventor of holography (lenseless photography), defines "innovation" as a methodical creation of the human spirit, a novelty that once created can be usefully and repeatedly applied. He describes and evaluates 100 important technological and biological inventions that can probably be expected within the next 50 years. He also…