Shootings in schools have alarmed parents, teachers, students, community leaders, administrators, and law-enforcement officials. Issues of violence and the presence of weapons in schools will surface as the new school year starts. Local news media will want to know what school and law-enforcement officials have done to ensure that school shootings…

This is the final progress report for the American Association of Community College's (AACC's) Learn and Serve America Program. It covers the time period between September 1, 1994 and August 31, 1997. The goal of the program is to develop an infrastructure for service learning at America's community colleges. Outcomes show that all 10 colleges…

This video presents an interactive teleconference where renowned national experts, local educators, and community leaders share ideas on how to improve schools and reach the National Education Goals. This Satellite Town Meeting focuses on best practices in school and community. It offers an opportunity for networking with people across the nation…

This video provides a live, interactive teleconference where renowned national experts, local educators, and community leaders share ideas on how to improve schools and reach the National Education Goals. This video focuses on best practices in school and community partnerships. The audience includes parents, teachers, school administrators,…

This strategy brief presents general principles and strategies for financing facility improvements and highlights five examples of innovative strategies found throughout the United States. The strategies described concern facility improvements for out-of-school time and community school programs and include the following: (1) accessing school…

School-community initiatives and what they are accomplishing were studied. The methodology included on-site reviews of initiatives in five states and telephone interviews with officials from three other initiatives. Also interviewed were representatives from three corporations that collaborate with schools to provide students with work-based…

This CD-ROM presents a virtual visit to the School of Environmental Studies, located on the grounds of its major community partner, the Minnesota Zoo. This 11th and 12th grade high school was opened in 1995, and in 1999 it was named a New American High School by the U.S. Department of Education because of its new, innovative approach to learning.…

This guide helps leaders working with parents and the community learn about promising practices in parent and community involvement in school reform. By examining the efforts of seven contrasting groups working with parents nationwide, the guide depicts the many forms that parent and community involvement in schools can take, highlighting…

Early efforts to reform middle-level education were characterized by the adoption of a set of programs, often those espoused by national advocacy groups. Too often such efforts were driven by changes in student population and adopted without broad participation by teachers, parents, and other community members. This paper relates the story of a…

This theme issue of "Service-Learning Network" explores the fundraising process as it applies to students and educators who want to secure financial aid for a school or community program. The article, "Seeking Funding for School and Community Programs" (Charles Degelman; Debra Ballinger; Vickie J. Burt), surveys the search for…

This paper discusses a proposal for an international research initiative [DREAMS-Direct Research in Education And environmental Management in Schools] which aims to develop an indicative methodology for evaluating the contribution of environmental management systems to the 'implementation of sustainable development' in schools. The research…

This book examines "baseline" communications in schools and school systems. Baseline communication is defined as schools' ongoing efforts to meet the information needs of parents and the community at large, to strengthen the partnerships of parents and schools, to promote school activities and events, to explain school programs and school's…

Eight papers, arising from a June 1998 seminar on the professions and public life, examine issues related to the practice of public scholarship and the new connections that institutions of higher education are forging with the public. Following a foreword by Deborah Witte, the papers are: (1) "The Academy and Public Life: Healing the Rift" (Scott…

This report presents evaluation results of the Learn and Serve America, Higher Education (LSAHE) federal initiative. The report addresses the impact of LSAHE on students, communities, and higher education institutions, and is based on data collection and observation from fiscal 1995 through fiscal 1997. The broad goals of LSAHE are to: engage…

The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education provides his viewpoints on maintaining strong public support for public education by reaching out to every part of the community. The Secretary urges Congress to act on school modernization. He discusses the emerging focus of architecture that now creates schools as community learning centers and…