Growing from an intense interest in community control of education in the mid-1960s, the National Teacher Corps indicated that its programs must reflect shared decision making at the local level. More specifically, guidelines for programs stipulated that parents, representatives of the local community, state educational personnel, higher education…

An expressed purpose of the Teacher Corps program is to encourage and assist changes in teacher education directed toward better ways to prepare teachers for work in areas of concentration of low-income families. Too often community involvement in such programs takes place after most decisions and plans have been made. As the 1970-72 Teacher Corps…

Good public relations can be achieved through positive contingencies and reinforcers. An administration and staff that stresses students' success will often make an enormous difference in the atmosphere of a school as well as in the pride of the students and the community in their school. (Author)

This annotated bibliography on campus/community relationships deals almost exclusively with the secondary effects of colleges and universities on their surrounding environs. The bibliography provides detailed and objective descriptions of the contents of the articles, monographs and books that deal with the effects of campus growth and expansion,…

THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY TO READING ACHIEVEMENT WAS STUDIED BY APPLICATION OF "A BALANCE THEORY OF COORDINATION." INTERLOCKING SURVEYS WERE CONDUCTED BY ADMINISTERING QUESTIONNAIRES AND INTERVIEWS TO A SAMPLE OF 4,402 PEOPLE, CONSISTING OF CHILDREN FROM 18 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, THEIR PARENTS, THEIR NEIGHBORS, AND SCHOOL…

Curriculum guides can speak well of the teacher and enhance student learning by telling students what is expected from them. (Author)

This article recommends that educational and recreational activities celebrating the Bicentennial be joint school community projects. A guide listing resources and ideas should be available to planning committees. (DS)

There is hardly a principal or school board in this nation who will continually resist the presence, determination, and organization of community forces with church leadership, coupled with parents and students, demanding excellence. (Author)

The first rule is to set the record straight. The public deserves to know what happened in a controversy even if the board members end up with egg on their faces. (Author/IRT)

Describes a program at Pennington Elementary School in Nashville, Tennessee, in which children are rewarded with "Weepuls" for good academic scores. (MD)

What community education is, why it hasn't been more widely adopted, and why interest in it has been renewed are discussed. (MT)

Ray Tolcacher, the active and highly visible principal of Whelan Elementay School in Lennox, California, won the respect and trust of the Hispanic community served by Whelan by encouraging local residents to use school facilities and by fostering good relations between community members and local police. (PGD)

Describes results from four separate studies of school leaders on their reaction to a selling or marketing approach in education. It is possible to project from the results that educational marketing may become an integral part of public relations programs for educators. (MD)

The video coordinator for the Trenton, Michigan, schools tells how they use educational access cable television to broadcast information about schools to the community. (MLF)