This volume describes a communications program for a high school district. The plan is intended to improve school-community relations through involving parents in advisory positions in the schools and through coordinating information exchange and communication between community agencies (such as the sheriff's department) and the schools. Community…

To bring intensive information input to Alaskans within poverty groups, an interagency activity is proposed that would employ 12 VISTA volunteers as community information aides with the Fairbanks North Star Borough Library serving as the center for the assembly and generation of information and the dissemination of information through multimedia…

The problems faced by 3 rural communities in Mississippi are identified, and their development programs are analyzed. Data were collected from 3 nonmetropolitan, multicounty centers, located in 3 distinct geographic regions of Mississippi. The 3 major analytical and data collecting concepts used were actions or programs; associations,…

This monograph is designed to update the articulation information provided in the author's previous work, "The Middleman in Higher Education" (1973), which identified articulation styles and summarized articulation policies in the fifty states. It notes recent changes in the articulation agreements of 13 states and describes their new statewide…

The aim of the Texas Child Migrant Program is for each school district to develop a migrant program designed to meet the particular educational needs of the children of that school system. Each district is encouraged to implement new ideas, activities, and strategies which show promise of improving the migrant child's education. The program's…

The publication is a final report on a vocational rehabilitation services project which attempted to reveal the values to be achieved by close association of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and the Department of Welfare in the areas of demonstration, service, and staff training in order to better serve clients of the Department of…

This study was initiated by Florissant Valley Community College and conducted by Systems Development Corporation to determine the priority of educational/information needs of three target groups: women, blacks, and older Americans. Among the aims of the project was the identification of existing constraints on community access to sources of…

The report covers the activities, results, and lessons learned in a project to test a new approach in developing greater opportunities in employment of the physically handicapped, mentally retarded, and mentally restored by harnessing the resources of leading volunteer women's organizations at the local level on a practical, planned basis. Project…

This paper is addressed to pscyhology graduate students who are considering a practicum experience in a community-oriented agency or institution. It contains several broad generalizations, all of which have notable exceptions. Some of these generalizations are: (1) the medical model still reigns supreme, with people in control of community mental…

Action research combines the development of competence with community action. It provides a means of organizing large numbers of people around well-defined, short-term jobs; engages people face to face with a problem; and translates research into politics by building a base of mass support for a given problem. The basic components of any action…

Service delivery to handicapped pupils is discussed in regard to the relationship between the California Master Plan for Special Education (see EC 062 915) and the Bureau of Pupil Personnel's Plan for Improvement of Guidance Services. The goals, benefits and limitations of both plans are described; and each plan is examined and compared in terms…

The 1867 British North America Act consigned responsibility for the education of Canadian Indians and Inuit to the Federal Government, but churches ran the schools until the post-World War II period. Government policy from 1948 until 1969 encouraged the integration of Native children into provincial educational systems. In 1969 the Government…

Designed to inform the public of rural development programs and services in the State of New Mexico, this directory presents over 100 program summaries, providing mailing addresses and telephone numbers and naming the agency, the specific program thrust, the Officer in Charge, and other contacts. Both an alphabetical and functional index are…

Descriptive data were gathered from state departments of education and health, local school districts, speech and hearing clinics, and residential and day schools for the deaf and hard of hearing. Site visits were made to 10 school districts. Results demonstrated that more emphasis was being placed upon the identification of children with hearing…

A historical review of education at the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana from 1872 through 1964 is presented in terms of the changes in, and philosophies of, the 3 major educational efforts on the reservation. The beginning of education for the Blackfeet Indians by way of mission schools, along with gradual movement into Federal…