Descriptions are given of four Australian programs intended to improve relations between primary and secondary school personnel and surrounding multiethnic communites. Presented in the form of four case studies, a variety of community-school issues are considered. In particular, the need for sensitive and well-trained counselors to serve as…

The basic premise behind the Dine Teacher Corps Project is that teacher pre-service and consequent inservice education and training is held to be a crucial factor in upgrading the quality of education received by American Indian students, particularly in a reservation setting. Although the Dine Teacher Corps Project includes three phases, only…

AS AN OUTGROWTH OF AN EARLIER STUDY ON IMPROVING STUDENT TEACHING IN HOME ECONOMICS, A PILOT PROGRAM WAS INITIATED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A STUDENT TEACHING PROGRAM DESIGNED TO PRODUCE HOMEMAKING TEACHERS WHO COULD QUICKLY BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH A COMMUNITY, ADAPT TEACHING TO IT, AND LOCATE AND USE LOCAL RESOURCES. INSTRUMENTS WERE…

The Rough Rock Demonstration School as established in Arizona in 1966 is an experiment in Navajo education. Characteristic of the program is a high level of parental and total community involvement. The school board is composed entirely of Navajos who have had very little formal education. Instruction in both the Navaho and English languages is…

In this paper, boards of education are urged to evaluate their policies and their performance in relation to parent and citizen involvement and to consider seriously how programs at districtwide and school levels can be improved. The emphasis in such programs should be on developing open two-way communications and full participation aimed at…

This report presents a summary and evaluation of the 8-day "Springboards to Learning" Institute, designed for involvement of both educator and community participants in a mutual effort to increase familiarity with and achieve competencies in the effective implementation of career education within the local schools and community. (Over…

In the 1976-77 school year, the Title IV Program included 11 components: continuation of the Parent Advisory Committee; sponsorship of 4 community/school feasts centered around Title IV concerns; employment of classroom aides; development of cultural instructional objectives and materials; elementary school counselor to help meet the most serious…

This report presents the results of a literature survey on team policing, based on references currently available and accessible through the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, the National Technical Information Service, and commercial publishers. (In team policing a group of officers under common supervision are responsible for all…

To increase understanding of culture change in rural Alaska as it specifically pertains to selected policy-related issues outlined by the Federal-State Land Use Planning Commission staff, four general areas are addressed: traditional subsistence use and effects of changing access and availability of those activities, apparent long-range effects of…

This is an account of the planning and implementation processes of a new secondary school (Bayridge Secondary School), located in a suburban area of a medium-sized city in Ontario, Canada. This report traces the planning and development of the school's goals, which included involvement of the entire school community, from 1970 through 1974. The…

According to the 1970 Census, approximately 33% of the 18,000,000 people living in New York lived in small towns, villages, and open country. Nonetheless, the State's major educational concerns have remained urban oriented. Although rural schools have some strengths (community centered, locally administered programs, desirable environment, and…

Until 1972, library services in Salt Lake County consisted of a group of branch libraries with nearly identical collections for recreational reading. Because the needs of the community had become more complex, a new regional library was built to coordinate library operations and establish new services. Among the innovations in public library…

Excerpts from the discussions and presentations of the National Indian Education Association's 6th annual conference held in November 1974 are reprinted in this issue of "Indian Education." A subject index and instructions on how to obtain tape recordings of the speeches and workshop proceedings are included. Topic titles are: (1)…

Directed at the problem of providing equitable long term rural development, this collection of papers deals with the criteria on which research and educational priorities should be based, given the vast problems and limited resources in the U.S. today. There are 11 papers in this collection: "National Outlook and Perspective" (a plea for…

The guide for an inservice course in career education is presented in 14 units designed to be used together as a complete course or selectively as learning modules for developing new skills or reviewing previously learned concepts. The course covers: definitions and concepts, historical antecedents and rationale, career development theories,…