Discussion of educational systems design focuses on a framework for exploring the scope of design options to help transform the existing educational system. Staying within the existing system, adjusting the boundaries by adding specific additional issues, and choosing the community or society as the overall context are considered. (LRW)

A study that sought to understand the partnership process from the perspectives of persons involved in the Cooperative Alliance for Gifted Education found that the collaborative process inherent in partnerships has the potential to foster a genuine sense of responsibility for education and education reform. (JOW)

A suburban Missouri community alliance linking the school district, city hall, the chamber of commerce, and the local water district has proved effective. Community alliances should embrace shared values and goals; use an independent consultant as an adviser; create action plans and then follow through; keep key people informed; and demonstrate…

Offers selections from a plan that focuses on the basics of getting telecommunications moving in schools. Gives suggestions on learning how to use telecommunications, funding for technology, and education about and promotion of telecommunications, both within the school and in the larger community. (SR)

Describes how a class of fourth graders effectively used their reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills to take action (regarding the laws governing trophy hunting) and to change a piece of their world. (SR)

In the sixth-grade science program at Peterson Middle School in Sunnyvale, California, grants and donated labor and materials were used to build a simulated space center. One of the capsules is devoted to growing vegetables hydroponically. Eighth-grade students serve as teaching assistants in the program, and biology and chemistry enrollments are…

To promote positive relationships between communities and schools, programs must find a way to communicate with an increasingly diverse audience. The role of a community education/school community-relations director should be envisioned as a series of processes that complement one another. (JOW)

Focuses on efforts in Connecticut to combat teenage pregnancy. Describes a model program that emphasizes a collaborative venture between a state-funded community-based pregnancy prevention program and a regional vocational-technical high school located in a rural setting. Describes Northeast Connecticut Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program and the…

Discusses partnerships between school-based health centers and school nurses, clarifying the role of school nurses and school-based health centers in the areas of collaboration, communication, and cooperation and examining obstacles to partnerships. Elements for successful collaboration are reviewed (clarifying roles, sharing leadership and…

Points out that there are fewer adults in families and that schools are unused before and after classes. Suggests that older adults can provide some support for school-aged children who would normally go home to an empty house. (JOW)

Discusses the several meanings, approaches, and implications of community as it relates to art education and schooling. Provides examples from the experiences of one rural southern Indiana school community as parents, students, and teachers worked to develop and implement changes in the arts program. (CMK)

Reports observations of two courses of Community Service Writing wherein the teacher incorporated community-based writing assignments in order to help students writing outside the university. Finds that the curriculum did not support students' transitions to nonacademic settings. Calls for a model of rhetorically focused composition instruction…

Presents some solutions to overcrowded parking on college campuses. Tips on selecting sites for parking garages, making parking decks blend with adjacent communities, and turning parking garages into multi use facilities are addressed. (GR)

Presents the highlights of a study examining what community or technical colleges will look like in the 21st century. Reports on the increasing integration of these schools into communities, combined with the evolution of a design-down process in which schools increasingly share space in existing buildings in communities. (RJM)

Describes one way that a school and community in South Carolina are meeting Goal Eight of Goals 2000 by involving parents and their children in two family science programs called the World of Wonders and Families Experiencing Science Together. (DDR)