To open up educational opportunities for those who are currently unable to meet their educational needs in traditional schooling institutions, and to make use of educational resources in the community lying dormant, the Chicago-area Learning Exchange has been operating successfully for three years. (Author/AJ)

Government failure to protect Indian water rights has grown so serious in the arid regions of the West that the very existence of Indians as Indians is now in peril. (Author)

The upward economic flux of Pike County is having a dramatic impact on the traditional morals and values held by the established community. Drug availability has increased proportionately with improved highway systems, accessibility of money, and increasing numbers of youth with their own cars. Although 75% of the population live in isolated…

Suggesting concrete operational procedures to stimulate discussion re: Objective B of the S-120 Regional Project (rural development), this paper focuses on key conceptual problems raised in a previous paper. The problem of cognitions or subjective worlds of actors is addressed in terms of Blumer's six features of public opinion; then, the…

Spurred by the impetus of the antipoverty programs of the 1960's, social science researchers and human service practitioners have focused upon the need for effective communication with the American urban poor. To this end, both groups have attempted to describe the context within which the urban poor receive and process messages in the hopes of…

Problems associated with uncoordinated proliferation of data collection procedures will not be alleviated until educational agencies and legislative bodies, at both state and federal levels, view data as a scarce resource which must be managed efficiently. Better linkages must be made between the data transfer requirements generated by the…

The central reports clearance authority of the Federal Government is a legislatively sanctioned mechanism for applying constraints on the conduct of statistical and other data gathering activities by Federal Departments and agencies and other research parties funded by Federal government contracts. General recommendations for improving the overall…

The Basic Skills Task Force within the United States Office of Education was created to provide the effective use of knowledge among the various basic skills programs in the country and to foster increased local impact from Federal education funds. On the assumption that with cooperation and coordination existing programs can meet the basic skills…

Tabulated results of a 1976 National Federation for the Improvement of Rural Education (NFIRE) survey soliciting 140 opinions (a 43% return on 322 survey forms) re: rural education priorities are presented in this paper. These results include the total number of persons responding to each item and the resultant ranking of all items in the survey.…

Action-learning, activities designed to give students the opportunity to acquire and apply knowledge in practical situations and to learn via participation, is a popular concept aimed at restoring relevancy to the public schools. Vocational and occupational curriculum, experience-based academic programs, and various volunteer and career education…

Based on the assumption that the steps involved in the total Peace Corps program-training process as well as the interrelationship of programing and training are essential to a trainer's ability to design, implement, and evaluate good training, the 11 steps of the program-training-evaluation process are described here with illustrative diagrams…

The stated purpose of this article is to relate the black struggle for liberation to the oppressive administrative context of Blacks in America; attention is directed first to the mounting crisis in both the theory and practice of public administration, and then to the paradigm of "praxis" as an alternative to that of administration. (Author/JM)

The communal unit from which a great many basic human needs must be met is a fluid, family-oriented institution such as the local parish rather than a corporate institution such as the modern school. Experiments in building partnerships between these potentially complementary institutions are necessary. (Author/IRT)

In his testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, the author notes that he has been with the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department since 1958; over the past five years, an attempt has been made to routinize the enforcement of civil rights statutes. (Author/JM)

The ongoing process of the formation of urban American and Canadian Indian ethnic institutions is discussed in terms of four stages, each dominated by a distinct set of institutions: (1) bar culture cliques and "Indian problem" institutions designed and staffed by social welfare agencies; (2) Indian centers and kinship-friendship networks; (3)…