The Appalachian Rural Systemic Initiative (ARSI) aims to stimulate sustainable systemic improvements that enhance student performance in mathematics, science, and technology in 66 Appalachian counties characterized by persistent poverty. To support this aim, a major ARSI goal involves development of partnerships among families, communities, and…

Since 1962 this private, non profit American Host Foundation has brought 2700 teachers from 13 countries to live with American families under a program of free optional activities. (IR)

Takes a brief but hard look at each of the Demonstration Districts involving the school decentralization experiment in New York City, in order to understand the present chaotic situation. Only a well-informed, aroused citizenry is considered to be able to save the children from destruction at the hands of the school system. (DM)

This paper is the report of a study conducted under NDEA and NIMH grants at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.

This article is based on several chapters of the author's book, "Teaching in the Inner City, to be published by Free Press.

Disengagement, the final phase in the community development process, receives little attention in the literature. Many community development practitioners make decisions regarding disengagement intuitively. This exploratory study of disengagement from community units was based on interviews with eleven University of Missouri Extension Community…

Based primarily on interviews with American sponsors of Khmer refugees, describes a cluster resettlement project conducted in Amherst, South Hadley, Northampton, and Easthampton, Massachusetts. Discusses services provided to refugees and considers sponsor-refugee relations. (GC)

The Shorewood (Wisconsin) public schools chose a new superintendent by establishing a search committee, hiring a consultant, surveying the community to identify desired qualities, developing an "ideal superintendent" profile for screening applications, arranging a 24-hour visit and interview process, and making their selection. (RW)

Saint Louis University has taken to heart its responsibility to the communities surrounding its metropolitan campuses in a series of cooperative neighborhood renewal projects. With both financial resources and ongoing commitment, the university has brought about substantial revitalization. (MSE)

Describes community involvement components in culturally oriented teacher education program, i.e., preservice and inservice community agency assignments, oncampus cultural preparation. Reveals that cultural immersion student teacher programs are attractive and professionally advantageous. (AH)

Conflicts in school closures may be minimized by: (1) not seeking consensus; (2) recognizing the limits of leadership; (3) adopting bargaining strategies; (4) making differential decrements less clearly differentiated; and (5) matching a decrement with an increment. (Author/MJL)

When community groups assume stewardship of underused properties and turn them into recreational spaces, park agencies can save money on overhead and construction. Three stewardship projects in New York State, involving a playing field, gardening areas, and a historical restoration, are described. Criteria for successful projects are included. (PP)