The role of community education is to provide educational, recreational, cultural, and other related community services in accordance with the needs, interests, and concerns of the public. Cooperation between community schools and community colleges in community education efforts should result in less duplication of effort, expanded use of…

This report contains the text of, and hearings on, a Senate bill to promote development and expansion of community schools throughout the United States. The bill offers a 3-way program for promoting community schools. It provides grant, or seed money to pay for administrative or other expenses to establish community schools and help to develop or…

The role of community school programs in rural schools is discussed in this paper. Major topics are community school program elements, legislation affecting rural community school programs, indications of need for community education principles, programs to remediate rural school deficiencies, and recommendations for program development. Where…

A project to remit reading and language deficiencies among community and primary (ages 4-9) pupils, over a three year period was conducted. Four population groups are included: pupils, parents, teachers and aides, and management. These populations comprise four project components: Preschool; K-3; Inservice; and management. Methods used with each…

Community education involves the use of public school buildings for total service to the community during before-school, after-school, and evening hours, with facilities becoming comprehensive community centers for the continuing education, enrichment, and unity of all the people. (Author/LH)

Defines the concept, "Community Education," the part that student alienation has in causing school vandalism, reports two studies that help prove the constructive influence of community schools in reducing school vandalism, and how student cooperation can be gained in community education. (RK)

Investigates the status of Arabic in the U.S. in four institutional areas: (1) the periodical press; (2) radio and television; (3) ethnic community schools; and (4) places of worship. Findings based on responses to questionnaires distributed in 1981 and 1982 indicate conscious efforts to maintain Arabic in these communities. (SED)

Article is taken from an interview conducted by Gordon J. Klopf, Provost and Dean of Faculty of the Bank Street College of Education, on September 7, 1971. (MB)

Describes the origins and motivations of the free school movement and examines in detail the cases of the Barlow High School and the Free University in Tucson, Arizona, (JM)

Provides several examples of cooperation between community colleges and community schools in Oklahoma to provide services in keeping with the tenets of community education. (AYC)

Argues the case for the educational right of the child to be recognized as a human being and be given the right of choice, and for teachers to have authority over the environment, not the individual. Available from: Australian College of Education, 916 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia, $2.50 single copy. (Author/MLF)

Examines the role of the "community school", particularly in reference to Cumberland County, England. Notes that a greater effort needs to be made to ensure that the adult part of the community is adequately considered and provided for, and that the adult education center should not be regarded as merely an adjunct of the secondary…

The startup of 465 federal 21st Century Community Learning Center Programs has propelled the idea of school/community collaboration onto national and local agendas. Collaborative action teams in the Southwest have identified three factors that encourage collaboration: the organizing group's commitment and diversity, administrative and campus…