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)

Implementing community education programs within the context of the regular school system can enhance communication between the school and the community and increase public support and involvement. (PGD)

Describes how students in Fort Wayne, Indiana, became involved in that community's efforts to recover from a flood. Explains how the tragedy provided great teaching moments for the schools, specifically the social studies classes. (FL)

Compared the effectiveness of presenting information on hazardous waste management alternatives during two one-day workshops (on-site visit and simulated slide visit) by using pretest, posttest, and follow-up attitude and comprehension questionnaires. Conclusions and recommendations are presented. (Author/BC)

An organized task force can create community awareness of the adolescent substance abuse epidemic sweeping across the nation. The purposes, objectives, structure and action-oriented committee activities of the task force are described. (Author/BL)

Provides citations and abstracts for ERIC documents dealing with community involvement in college planning and programing (AYC)

Describes Friendly Street, an Australian self-help community of writers existing outside schools that offers writers a chance to read or publish their written works. (HOD)