This instrument provides questions for determining parental attitudes toward aspects of the bilingual education programs in which their children participate. The questions appear in both English and Spanish. Techniques for administering the questionnaire are suggested along with possible uses of the information. (VM)

American Indian people, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), and the nation all have a common interest in assuring a quality education for Indian children. No education program can be truly effective, however, unless it has the support and the involvement of those directly benefiting from it--the Indian students, parents, and communities.…

The eight papers in the report are tied together by the theme of pluralism and social change in an attempt to determine information needs in the area of inservice teacher education (ISTE) and to identify the contemporary issues surrounding ISTE. The first three papers describe case studies of substantial efforts in inservice education: a…

Widespread provision of non-entertainment services by way of telecommunications can have a significant impact on rural growth and public services and on rural-urban migration patterns if the mix of these services and the places where they are to be introduced are chosen within the context of a national rural policy, and if local residents perceive…

Communications is critical to community development, especially rural communities that are poor, immobile and at a distance from a major metropolitan area. The isolation of these communities comes out of a need for cohesiveness within a system that functions for them. There is some mutual support between their economic, political, and social…

Data collected via a Wisconsin statewide survey of randomly selected adults (N=548) were used to test the hypothesis that size of place is inversely related to community attachment in an ideational sense and that size of place has no clear association with participatory measures of attachment (i.e., contrary to the "linear development"…

This document reports on Phase II of a major project designed to study how school systems respond to the educational needs of the socially and economically disadvantaged. The report presents the Local Community Control model as the most effective means to change the school board's typical non responsiveness to the needs of the educationally…

Conventional methods of recruiting and communicating with potential college students living in poor urban communities have proven ineffective. New procedures are necessary, particularly those which capitalize on the strengths that already exist within these communities, for the purpose of school-to-college articulation. This paper discusses two…

This unit has three major purposes: to identify and examine criteria of relevance, to review evidence on the schools' failure to satisfy these criteria, and to survey approaches to making the schools more relevant in terms of these criteria. The unit objectives are to define relevance as related to school programs; list major criteria for judging…

One of seven similar project reports dealing with program development in career education for teacher, counselor, and administrator preparation, this report presents, in four sections, information concerning the use of community resources at the college or university level. The first section describes the Community Resource Task Force's activities…

The school district's interactive cable television network allows students and instructors at different schools to communicate. The public may view school programs through their community cable TV system, which provides many community awareness opportunities. Videotape exchanges are also conducted with students in other states and countries. (SJL)

Reasons for the underutilization or misuse and the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of advisory committees in community college vocational programs are reviewed and discussed from the experience of community college administrators. The article also notes the duties of local advisory committees and how committees can be involved in college…

The Spanish language teacher can enrich the study of Hispanic culture by drawing upon local community resources. Suggestions, resource guides, and bibliographies are offered to enable the classroom teacher to utilize local Cuban, Chicano, and Puerto Rican resources in the teaching of Hispanic culture. (Author)

A field trip program for third-year medical students at Howard University College of Medicine, in existence since 1969, is described. It permits students to observe and evaluate healthy and handicapped children in a non-hospital environment, allows children and students to interact informally, and exposes students to various agency settings in…

University managers of academic outreach need outstanding skills in communication, persuasion, and negotiation to win and maintain active faculty/administrator support for outreach activities. Failure to generate such support will make it impossible for outreach managers to deliver on the promise of the outreach concept. (Editor/LBH)