The importance of adult education to improving health conditions is that it can assist people to learn how to make judgments, how to take the best health action, and how to develop a consciousness about their health priorities and practices. (SK)

Parents who do not recognize problems their youngsters have often become defensive, thus making it difficult for schools and others to offer assistance to them and their children. Outlines a program that involves the use of community ombudsmen to help at levels where their assistance is most needed. (Editor/RK)

Synanon is a community that offers the elderly an alternative to the lives of quiet desperation that many experience. It explores the myth that older people are inflexible and cannot change. (Author)

The article recommends involvement of more community resources in transitional programing for students with disabilities. In-depth analysis of what is expected from a job should be used in transitional programing. Employers also need to be encouraged to hire workers identified as having a special need. (DB)

The article reviews the premises, objectives, and practices of programs for the support and education of low-income parents from the mid- nineteenth century to the present. The society's ambivalence about poverty and communal responsibility for children is seen to still be the main constraint to greater program efficacy. (DB)

Presents some examples of how reading education and the community can come together. Divides the presentation into two types of community involvement: bringing the community into the schools and integrating classrooms into the community. (MG)

Describes the development of the College and University Community Inventory (CUCI), an instrument designed to measure the extent of community within colleges and universities for students. Article discusses the methods for establishing the instrument's validity and ascertaining reliability indices. (Contains 18 references.) (Author/GCP)

Considers what role professional organizations play in helping educators live their lives as intellectuals. Notes that being an intellectual means engaging the world, acting on it and in it, reflecting on and learning from the events around them and from their interactions with others. Concludes that to experience being an intellectual, a…

Between September 2005 and January 2006, Public Education Network (PEN) held a series of public hearings to give students, parents, and community members-audiences very much affected by the law, but usually left out of the policy debate-an opportunity to tell their side of the NCLB story. The hearings serve four purposes: (1) They provide venues…

In light of their historical role in African American communities, faith-based organizations are uniquely positioned to offer substance use prevention programs to urban African American youth. This article describes the efforts of a university-based program to provide training and technical assistance to faith-based organizations in the…

This booklet is concerned with the issue of youth gangs. A brief introduction provides examples of gang violence and notes that juvenile gangs are not just a problem in large metropolitan areas, but are being established in communities nationwide. Following this introduction is a series of questions and answers about gangs. Questions focus on what…

Social support has been considered an important coping resource moderating the stress associated with physical illness and disability. The role of social support as a buffering agent for stressful life events inherent in physical illness and disability was examined in 78 individuals with spinal cord injury, residing in community settings in…

Historical antecedents are reviewed to show that performance of the trainable mentally retarded (TMR) child cannot be improved by traditional academic methods and that the TMR person can never assume a self directed role in society. (MC)

THE AUTHOR DEALS WITH THE ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITY IN EDUCATING STUDENTS TO BE CITIZENS AND LEADERS IN OUR URBANIZED SOCIETY. HE SEES URBANIZATION AS BEING DIFFERENT FROM, THOUGH RELATED TO, INDUSTRIALIZATION, AND HE SEES DISTINCT DIFFERENCES IN THE SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL RESPONSES NEEDED TO DEAL WITH THEM. WHILE INDUSTRIALIZATION, THE MAIN FOCUS OF…