China's "minban" (people-managed) schooling was an important instrument for delivering educational and political values to poor areas during Mao's era. Despite national policy aimed at eliminating poorly-qualified minban teachers by 2000, rural communities have been reluctant to dismiss such teachers, given the rural teacher shortage and…

Describes Public School 146, a public elementary school in New York City where the principal has created a school community that builds on the strengths of the parents and makes the school an extended family for each child. Describes special services, a student leadership program, and student achievement gains. (JB)

This paper addresses the common issues with which a Chinese school in the United States may be struggling and new opportunities on which the education system and society can capitalize. Most children in Chinese schools experience language shifts from Chinese to English and then to Chinese as a second language. They may experience substractive…

This paper discusses the importance of using community resources to supplement classroom instruction in the social studies to enhance the students' comprehension of the importance and immediate application of classroom instruction to the real world. Community resources can be used by classroom teachers in all subject areas, and at all grade levels…

Revising the school curriculum to meet community needs by integrating formal and informal approaches, rather than implementing one national program, is proposed as a way to meet India's educational needs. (AG)

The function of community schools is to relate community needs to existing community resources and to offer programs only if no other educational institution can effectively offer them. Competition for students and programs between community schools and other community resources should be subordinated to an assessment of institutional capabilities…

THE PRESENT STUDY REPRESENTS AN EXTENSION OF A STUDY WHICH DEALT WITH THE LATER ADJUSTMENT OF INDIVIDUALS DISCHARGED FROM A STATE INSTITUTION FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED. THIS EFFORT REWORKED AVAILABLE DATA TO DEVELOP A MORE EFFICIENT TECHNIQUE OF PREDICTION AND TO STUDY FURTHER INTERACTIONS AMONG THE VARIOUS CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GROUP. IN…

RESEARCH ON SCHOOL DISTRICT REORGANIZATION VERIFIES THAT LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS OPERATE AS A FUNCTION OF THE STATE. AS REORGANIZATION RATES HAVE BEEN TOO SLOW, THE EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THE NEED FOR STATE LEGISLATIVE MANDATES FOR COMMUNITY-TYPE SCHOOL DISTRICTS. FOR IMPROVED UTILIZATION OF CONTEMPORARY KNOWLEDGE OF EDUCATION IN PROVIDING RICHER AND…

THIS PAPER STATES THAT A DISPROPORTIONATE EMPHASIS HAS BEEN PLACED ON COLLEGE-BOUND PROGRAMS, NEGLECTING VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN THE RURAL SCHOOLS. THE FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA PROGRAMS APPEAR TO BE SUCCESSFUL DUE TO THE PROBLEM-SOLVING, WORK-EXPERIENCE APPROACH THAT BUILDS ON CLOSE WORKING RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THE HOME, THE SCHOOL, AND THE…

The first part of this bibliography lists a number of books, journal articles, and statements of government bodies and community and professional organizations about school decentralization (especially in New York City), community political power, and educational decision making. The second part is a chronological listing of articles from…

The objective of the evaluation of Rough Rock Demonstration School (RRDS) on the Navajo Reservation was to examine, in terms of its own stated objectives, the school's organizational and social system as a whole. Chapters in the 1969 evaluation report are "What We Did and Why,""The Schools That Were Compared,""Community…

An appendix to a staff paper on telecommunications in urban development, submitted to the President's Task Force on Communications Policy, describes possible uses of new communications technology in the ghetto. Television, the most widely spread and most promising medium, has potential for improving education, increasing community awareness, and…

The New Directions Community School, Inc., developed this manual on the basis of their experiences with planning, establishing, and running a free school. It is designed to provide others who are interested in setting up free schools with information which will help them solve or avoid some of the technical problems involved. A general statement…

The result of a five year project on alternative schools within the public school system of Minneapolis, Minnesota, this report provides a complete description of the project from the pre-planning and proposal stage through the final evaluation. The program was implemented in the Southeast area, a community consisting of several communities with…

Tufts New England Medical Center and local Boston community groups have cooperated to create a kindergarten through fifth grade facility that is also a resource center for the medical center community and the multiethnic residential neighborhood. (Author/MLF)