Outlines a program to help restore public confidence in the schools that starts with the community leadership. Suggestions are made for principals to initiate and implement the program. (Author/MLF)

General guidelines to develop community support of children's programs are presented within a conceptual framework. General design features include planning, development, and implementation. Specific tasks are identified and a planning guide is provided. (Author/DB)

In response to the perceived uneasiness about the state of citizenship education in public schools, the article focuses on various studies and reports on political illiteracy, examines the isolation of most social studies programs from the community, views the role of students in the community, and recommends that students be more actively…

Outlines an approach, termed the "Communications Laboratory," that educators can use in managing the conflicts that can arise when the district wants to close a school and some segments of the community do not. (IRT)

The religious education course for seniors at Marian Catholic High School in Chicago Heights, Illinois, is designed to heighten students' religious awareness through volunteer work with less fortunate members of the community. (SJL)

Drug education should be relevant to our drug-using society and part of the curricula for all grade levels. It must go beyond the classroom to life applications. The impact of drugs presents an opportunity to develop a comprehensive approach based on community resources for the benefit of youth. (Author/BEF)

Describes activities undertaken by a team of science educators in a fishing community in the Philippines to link science education in the schools to the home and community by involving parents in science-related activities, enriching elementary school level science, and raising the level of scientific consciousness in the community. (CS)

Presents a theoretical model of internal-external communications and an example of an implementation procedure based on that model. (Author/IRT)

Reviews the present perceptions of interest group structure and function. Suggests ways that superintendents and school districts can best cope with and utilize interest groups without manipulating them. (Author/GC)

Advocates turning the attention to one's own home base for publications looking for some variety in content. (RL)

Argues that despite the social changes that affect the schools, which the schools cannot change, the public schools are doing a good job. Outlines steps for an intensified campaign to improve the image of public education. (IRT)

Outlines the problems of a high school that is serving Hopi and Navajo Indians on a reservation in the Southwest. Suggests that the Indians and the school may have different goals. (IRT)

Studies of the economic impact of a college on the surrounding community are encouraged and outlined. The data necessary for such a study includes spending by college, faculty, and students; town tax receipts; and visitors' numbers and spending graphically prepared, summarized and released to the media. (JMF)

A description is given of the success of a teacher center managed by the teachers and involving the local community. (JD)

Traces the development of a high school newspaper from a mimeographed publication to a monthly six-page supplement in the local daily newspaper. Lists some advantages in the new arrangement: improved writing by students due to increased motivation, reduced printing costs, "real world" experience for student writers, and lower costs of production.…