This index catalogs materials contained in the library of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Community Education at the University of Virginia. This library houses a professional reference collection of specialized publications, studies, reports, audiovisual materials, and other information related to the philosophy of community education and the…

Three separate buildings at the New North Community School, linked by an underground mall, serve and connect a series of communities. (MLF)

With a sense of alarm in writing, these authors urge principals to examine the community education concept as soon as possible. It's their choice today, they write, but tomorrow it may not be as taxpayers search for full utilization of public facilities. (Editor)

The community school does not start at 3:30 p.m. This is the notion that the writer tries to get across as he illustrates how to expand the concept of community education into the traditional day school program. (Editor)

The author talks to the founder of the Center for Village Studies. His name is George Delf, and his concern is with the long-term future of villages for which he has some energetic proposals. (Editor/RK)

This report examines public policy effects on historic neighborhood school expansion, renovation, and replacement needs. It addresses four basic questions: (1) Are public policies inadvertently sabotaging the very type of community-centered school that many parents and educators are calling for today? (2) Do some policies and practices promote…

Fort Wayne Community Schools (Indiana) reduced vandalism costs from $22,450 a year to $550. Buildings are outfitted with a variety of intruder detection devices connected to a central monitoring station. (Author)

The hypotheses that black children exposed to a problack community school would prefer more and identify more with dolls of their own race than children not exposed to such a program was supported in this study. (Author/KM)

Rejection of schools as impersonal processors of resigned children, badly prepared for an inscrutable society, is being accompanied by a return to local initiative and individual responsibility for education. (Author)

Discusses a career education program at a high school in which 80 percent of its students are college bound. The program is based on the premise that every student should receive some form of career training. (Author/DN)

In the midst of emotional confusion and the apparent evolution of the new family lies genuine concern for the children involved with parents, who hope child and parent can grow together. (RK)

In a study of centralized and decentralized schools, it was found that parents' age, race, or socioeconomic status were not as significant as type of district in which their children attend school as indicators of parents' satisfaction with schools. (Editor/SP)

Selected quotes from the Department of Education position paper on the integration of vocational and secondary general schools. (RT)