How one district invited citizens to take an active part in expressing their opinions on how well the schools are doing their jobs. (Author)

The study examines various public relations approaches used by school superintendents and school systems in the state of Tennessee. (FF)

Author describes with some winning practical advice, how schools can run successful campaigns for referenda. (GB)

The principal is the key to change and effectiveness, and hence to the health of schools and the educational system in general. (WM)

An Elizabethan scholar, exiled to academic Siberia, ruminates on the sociology of the community college. (Editors)

Having a community education citizens council function as a "results" council rather than as an "advisory" council will assure that it continues to run effectively and that it does not become trapped in maintenance-centered activities. (Author/DN)

Relates some of the significant developments arising from one large school district's quest for meaningful school-community involvement. (Author/DN)

The Urban Corps involves thousands of students each year in city government. All of them earn salaries, many earn academic credit, and a few are rewarded with municipal jobs after their training is ended. (Author)

If a survey questionnaire is designed and worded effectively, volunteers can be used to conduct it. Apple Valley-Rosemount (Minnesota) found that volunteers need not be trained in interviewing techniques, and that the school board and administration can reap a wealth of high quality data and benefits not normally available with conventional, more…

Enlightened educators have for years recognized and promoted the need for meaningful community involvement in educational planning. The most desirable way of dealing with the general management and guidance of such planning is through the establishment of a districtwide steering committee or educational council. Case studies of four districts…

Believing that community education must begin to evaluate its own performance in relationship to processes designed to foster and enhance the development of the entire community, the author has devised 125 questions concentrated in 14 topical areas. Answers to such questions should provide guidelines for future plans and action. (Author)

New school board members need crash courses in boardmanship and basic educational principles. Such a move cannot help enhance their credibility rating with taxpayers, as well as lay the foundation for a new two-way relationship between administrators and policymakers. (Author/WM)

A great deal of new thinking is going on in the field of educational planning in new towns. Problems include the taxpayer revolt against the escalating costs of education and the slowness of educational change to occur. Developers are investigating the possibilities of joint development and use of public facilities. (Author/MLF)

A community's medical care needs are best served by a system involving ready access to a physician skilled in primary medical care and ready referral to a specialist or specialist service. (Author)