Describes an enrichment program for gifted primary-grade students using parent volunteers in Akron, Ohio. Twice a month, a parent provides enrichment activities for a group of six to eight students. The gifted coordinator provides the lesson plans and the classroom teacher provides the supplies. Informal evaluation has been positive and the…

Provides an introduction to the research base for violence prevention as well as an introduction to comprehensive school-based planning for violence prevention. Addresses the role of the school counselor in facilitating such a planning process, particularly the role of collaborative consultant to initiate this process in the community. (Contains…

Discusses how as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga expands into a decaying black neighborhood--including donating the land for a public school--not all of the residents support the changes. (EV)

Explores how a new school facility can be important, not only as a community center, but also as a resource center for library services such as computer labs, Internet service, and current periodicals. The article also examines how one Missouri school district planned its new school library to serve the community. (GR)

Examines how service learning in teacher education can help build a community of learners, strengthen the capacity of teachers to enhance the community, and foster increased teacher involvement in the community development process. (RS)

Suggests that the expansion of knowledge and its relevance to experience and society once belonged to civic professionals. Specialization in the academy replaced them with the power and the limitations of inward-looking disciplines. It is concluded that, drawing on both these traditions, educational innovation is called for now. (EV)

Claims that rigorous standards in schools will help children in navigating in the changing economy. Explains that Goals 2000 legislation, passed in 1994, can energize and expand local efforts to strengthen schools and reach high standards. Claims that teachers are the heart of educational improvement, while parents and business partners can…

Four main resources for creating a sense of community are city government, media, schools, and civic infrastructure. A school that is itself a healthy community can make an important contribution to community building. (SK)

Investigates whether partnerships enable natural resource professionals to better perform their roles as nonformal environmental educators and if partnerships benefit natural resource agencies and their employees in other ways. (Author/SAH)

Explains how planning and design can allow schools to welcome the community into parts of their facilities without risking the security of the entire building. (GR)

To determine the effects of a service-learning experience, first year pharmacy students were surveyed on their perceptions regarding: (1) cultural diversity, the elderly, the poor, and the disabled; (2) community service and social support; and (3) their service learning assignment. The experience positively impacted their perceptions regarding…

Interviews with Cornell Cooperative Extension faculty, staff, and administrators (28 campus-based and 39 county staff) revealed both similarities and differences in views of engagement. County staff view their jobs as the critical link between community needs and university resources; campus staff view themselves as implementers of programs.…

Discusses the need for school districts to practice active community relations in order to positively influence information flowing to the community. Addresses performing a communications audit and ways to disseminate information to the public. (EV)

Clear and concise communication in school systems is one of the weakest links in many administrative practices. Ron Edmonds, a professor at Harvard University and Michigan State University, found that good educator-to-parent communication goes a long way in improving student achievement. (MLF)

Introduces concept of Community Youth Development, the purpose of which is to help communities respond to youth violence; reviews community efforts to respond to youth violence; describes history of community youth development; discusses positive youth-development building blocks; provides four-part definition of community youth development;…