This talk has been prepared as a model for presenters when seeking the support and involvement of organizations and volunteers for the California Search and Serve program. The paper has been designed to permit easy additions and changes for localization and for meeting the specific requirements of the audience. In its present form, the talk is…

The skills needed by the principal for developing and maintaining good school/community relations are synthesized from recent research and presented in this brief document. These universal concepts are applicable to both large and small schools. The topics included are the principal's responsibility to the community, necessary political skills,…

Based on the California Roundtable Study "Improving Student Performance in California," this brief handbook has been designed to help promote community involvement in the improvement of California public schools. Sections include the following titles: (1) "Why You or Your Organization Should Help," (2) "Getting Started:…

Focuses on four community colleges: Lakota Higher Education Center, Pine Ridge, Sinta Gleska College, and Rosebud (all in South Dakota), noting that since the advent of Office of Economic Opportunity implementation of community action programs, there has been a tremendous upsurge in higher education for Indians of all tribes. (Author/JM)

Author addressed himself to two particular problems in the modern urban primary school: the fragmentation of the teaching staff and the difficulty in responding as a unit to community demands. (Author/RK)

Argues that the principal cause of failure has been due to a lack of sufficient power to overcome the opposition of groups who depended upon and actively defended the historically centralized and professionally dominated system. (Author/AM)

This article describes a stream management course designed to give non-science majors an in-depth study of water quality. The course includes work in determining and measuring water quality parameters and the discussion of management techniques. Construction of a Hewitt Ramp and wing deflectors are illustrated in the article. (MA)

Thirteen activities developed through Project ECOS for elementary through high school environmental education courses are presented. (DE)

In China, older people are very much a part of society, playing a responsible role in planning and fulfilling the aims of the school, factory, commune, or street committee. Retired Workers' Centers and rural communes provide for the social, physical, and educational needs of the elderly. (MW)

Presents three alternative roles for school psychologists: 1) psychoeducational specialist in the school; 2) school specialist in community-based psychological services; and 3) psychologist focusing on the social structure of the school. (Author/PC)

The continuum of service models presented here is a result of analyzing the various ways in which schools participating in cooperative endeavors relate their student-community involvement activities to the total academic curriculum. (Editor/RK)

In the fall of 1973, Grand Rapids, Michigan, hosted an ambitious citywide exhibit of monumental public sculpture. Thirteen public sculptures were placed around the city as the result of cooperation between civic leaders (plus the co-sponsorship of the museum) and art professionals. (BT)

The "school as a theater" concept is employed at this elementary school. A grid system permits students and teachers to mock-up different environments. (Author/MLF)