San Francisco schools face dizzying challenges: low test scores, irrate parents - even the problem of earthquake-proofing the school buildings. (Editor)

Article presented a number of responses to a survey of wherein rests the responsibility for governing schools in America. (RK)

Condensed from "Washington Education, Volume 80 (December 1968), 4-5.

Analysis of report to be published by the Urban Coalition.

The report details the background, development, and implementation of a school-community coordinated preschool program for suspected handicapped children under age 5. Legal mandates to identify preschool children with special needs are cited, despite a permissive mandate of serving those identified. Ten steps to be taken by districts in planning…

To work effectively with personnel in the news media, one needs to assist them in doing their job by getting accurate information to them (in plenty of time for their deadline) and in providing information about meetings (when they do not have a reporter to cover the event). Familiarity aids in communication with news media personnel so one should…

The parent-teacher conference is widely endorsed as an effective method of reporting pupil progress. They are particularly valuable because the conferences provide an opportunity for two-way communication about students. The understanding gained in a conference can help the school and home work together to bring out the maximum in a student.…

This nine-chapter monograph suggests public relations strategies for two-year colleges. After Chapter I sets forth the need for public relations programs to communicate with various audiences, Chapter II examines the terminology, objectives, and nature of public relations, considers the advisory role of the public relations officer, and identifies…

School administrators need a better understanding of community education, which is defined as both a process and a place for bringing communities and their resources together. A Georgia Southern course examines the meaning and techniques of community education and addresses administrators' fears about school building damage or disruption and about…

We are, for the second time in a hundred years, experiencing a revolution in the politics of education. In the 1890s municipal reform wrested control of urban school systems from city political machines and their neighborhood subunits. Since then the structure of school government has rested on two types of legitimacy. These are a belief in…

The conventional concept of educational efficiency, adapted from the technical-industrial sector, is inappropriate for public schools. In the technical industrial sector, there is widespread agreement about the desired outcome: profit. Yet there is very little public agreement about the proper goals of schooling. Even if agreement on goals could…

Designed for the collaboration between educators and community persons, this book contains thirty-eight staff training and thirty-four student career education activities. Following a table of contents that contains annotated descriptions of the activities, a two-page description of each activity is provided. Each description includes an activity…