Ten stops that generalize a bottom-up district budget building system featuring intensive community involvement. (Author/MLF)

Educational administrators should exercise leadership by incorporating the resources of the community into educational programs and meeting the needs of the community. (Author/MLF)

Describes the community takeover of the Berks Community Television, an experiment in interactive cable television for delivery of social services to senior citizens in Reading (Pennsylvania). Programing and production involve the community at locations such as neighborhood centers, City Hall, County Court House, and other sites. (JMF)

The manager of the South Georgia College Bookstore describes several autograph parties used as a sales promotion technique. The planning process, including initial contacts with the guest authors, are discussed, and the schedules and events of the authors' visits are reviewed. (JMD)

This report strongly suggests that legal action for better schools does not obviate the need for organizational resources and skilled community organization. If the children of the poor are to have quality education, they will need advocates outside the ghetto, but they will also need an organized community. (Author)

This article reports on a survey to find out whether current and future elementary school teachers are basically receptive to educational input from people who are not themselves classroom teachers. (JD)

The first Asian Community Library in the U.S. offers a popular collection of print and audiovisual materials in five Asian languages, as well as a special collection in English on Asian Americans and Asian history and culture. Acquisition, cataloging, and political difficulties are also discussed. (Author/JPF)

This paper reviews preschool provision of the U.K., focusing on the problem of immigrants, child minding, special schools for the handicapped, day care services, nursery schools, teacher training, and community involvement. The quality of provision in the U.K. is compared with provision in Australia. (CM)

This report strongly suggests that legal action for better schools does not obviate the need for organizational resources and skilled community organization. If the children of the poor are to have quality education, they will need advocates outside the ghetto, but they will also need an organized community. (Author/AM)

Argues that the movement to deinstitutionalize social deviants through development of broader community services reflects questions about the effects on society of the use of power for social control. (MS)

Educational Programs for Exceptional Adults (EPEA), a continuing education project for mentally and physically handicapped adults at Broward (Florida) Community College, offers a varied curriculum in personal and vocational adjustment, home management, and leisure time skills, includes a summer camp program, and draws on the support of community…

Describes the nature and scope of deliberate involvement of adults in formal and nonformal part-time learning activities in Ontario. (Author/AV)

Results of a questionnaire of administrators of community living arrangements programs for the developmentally disabled in Pennsylvania (N=116) found that some programs promoted relationships with neighbors, but others wished to keep the role of neighbors to a minimum. (Author/DB)

Argues for the establishment of a substantive, far-reaching educational development program for entrepreneurship, spanning elementary through postsecondary and continuing education. Program foci would be (1) entrepreneurship awareness and exploration and (2) responsiveness to the local small business community. (SK)

Discusses how school principals can achieve the delicate balance between administrative power and citizen activism while harnessing the power of citizen participation to improve schools. Outlines a concept of community education to encourage informed involvement in school affairs. (SK)