Discusses the principal's role as coordinator of the school's public relations program. Touches on relationships principals should develop with individuals (teachers, parents, students, and the public) and organizations and outlines the uses of publications, announcement boards, public programs, news releases, letters, parent conferences, annual…

Provides insight into a general education approach that encourages full community participation in education. Discusses the historical role of festivals and play in cultural transmission, general education, and community definition. Describes Ohio State University's Renaissance Festival and the community's involvement in making the festival an…

The Volunteers in Public Schools program in Volusia County (Florida) has brought expertise from the community to the classrooms, enabled school districts to stretch their resources, and generated support for the schools. The ways in which the program recruits, trains, utilizes, and recognizes its volunteers are discussed. (MLF)

Since the 1930s, high school students in Pulaski, Wisconsin have been producing the town's only newspaper. In addition to providing the community with a source of news, the paper involves students in an educational experience that they would otherwise only be able to receive at a "regular" newspaper. (Author/GC)

Fifty ways used to celebrate CASE's (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) Mindpower Week are provided. Campus actions include sending out a news release about the Mindpower campaign, placing public service announcements in local media, and using the theme in alumni magazines. (MLW)

Three network studies in education, assessing the "state of the art," are reviewed. New directions for developing social network analysis in education are offered from the author's fieldwork in Pontiac, Michigan. It is believed that networking will remain a popular change strategy, but it will be incorporated into more comprehensive…

A study to assess the long-term effects of participation in a high school community service project during the years 1945 to 1949 is described in terms of reconstruction of the original program, methodology, results, and finally, suggested hypotheses and methodological recommendations. (Author/MLF)

Describes how one district mounted a successful campaign to get its budget passed after the same budget was defeated three months earlier. (IRT)

Points out that people do not know very much about vocational education and, therefore, have an erroneous understanding of it. It is up to the poeple in vocational education to promote it by extolling its benefits and importance and correcting the myths that prevail. (JOW)

Discusses a shoplifting prevention campaign organized and conducted by a group of distributive education students. Includes suggestions for selecting a theme, capitalizing on news coverage, creating community awareness, and conducting community service programs. (JOW)

Presents ratings of the skills building principals feel they should possess for their role in a public relations program and of the location where the necessary skills should be acquired. Principals seem to believe that the most important skills should be learned on the job. (IRT)

In Eastern Junior High School in Greenwich, Connecticut, 50 local artists take over the school for one day a year, working, demonstrating, and performing with and for the students. (Author/JM)

Discusses the history of the medium and the benefits of school access programing. Pennsylvania's Colonial School District channel is described to show how cable television serves as an information base for the adult community as well as for students. (FM)

Discusses necessity of educational policy changes to provide citizens with a meaningful voice on school advisory councils. (Author/LD)

Focuses on the important role of curriculum in the educational process. Suggests that until a core of persons, along with local community support, are trained in curriculum development, schools must accept other alternatives in order to maintain responsibility for an adequate education for all youth. (Author/RK)