This study explored how diversity among newcomer youth may explain differences in engagement and school success. Youth identifying fear-based reasons for relocation reported being less involved within their schools than those who identified social mobility. In fear-based relocation, youth often viewed Canada as a temporary place to live and gain…

The report looks at the education service in Inner London as a whole and proposes developments designed to enable it to serve more fully the needs of the whole community. Attention is drawn to the important aspects of the community in Inner London and its problems. The report goes on to describe some of the new developments which have taken place.…

This document contains the speeches and notes of workshop participants assembled to discuss the rehabilitation and renovation of existing schools in keeping with new educational requirements. Thirty-seven selections cover such topics as criteria for planning; development of school sites; community use of the schools; education and architecture;…

This article describes some guidelines the elementary school counselor can use to coordinate cooperative projects with social agencies. (Author)

Article focused on the concept of a cooperative and how it offers insights as to how a community college may work together with the community to develop a community-based educational program. (Author/RK)

Describes how the combined efforts of community and school made a community education program work without additional funds. (Author/DN)

Presents some emerging concepts for developing a community education program to respond to the two Teacher Corps need area focii: the improvement of education through training teachers and changing the school's ways of approaching learning through new linkages with parents, community resources, and service agencies beyond the schools. (Author/DN)

A basic program of community services and the basic procedures for its effective administration and supervision are presented in checklist form. This checklist is offered as a guide for public and private junior colleges interested in establishing or strengthening a program of community services, and includes suggestions for community colleges to…

The major thrust of the University-Urban Interface Program (UUIP) was to study the interface between Pittsburgh University and its urban community. Ultimate goals were to design ways in which relations between universities and their communities may be enriched. UUIP studied activities in five representative areas: Communications, Minority and…

Since 1990, the School of Education at James Cook University has produced and delivered a successful off-campus Bachelor of Education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in their home communities through the Remote Area Teacher Education Program (RATEP): A community-based teacher education program for Indigenous peoples. This paper…

Describes the Taft Museum In-School program, a cooperative art education project with the Cincinnati public schools which combines a program conducted at the Museum with classroom visits by Museum staff. (BR)

If the urban, independent university is to survive, it must recognize the impending enrollment decline and emphasize academic excellence and programs that are rooted in the urban community. (IRT)

This journal issue contains reports on U.S. examples of partnerships among communities, higher education institutions, and public schools. These articles demonstrate that the idea of such partnerships has taken firm root and flourished in innovative forms. The issue contains these articles: (1) 2001 as Turning Point (Lee Benson and Ira Harkavy);…

One of the learning activities used in general construction classes today is for students collectively to build a house. Organizing, planning, and obtaining good school community cooperation are essential to such a project. Financing, land purchase, tools, insurance, and safety standards should all be integrated in the planning. (DS)

Defines drug problem as a community problem and advocates total community interest and involvement, including youth, in mobilizing resources for solutions to the problem. (KJ)