This handbook identifies the essential steps and pitfalls to successful partnerships between schools and their broader communities, and describes approximately 500 examples of ongoing collaborative efforts throughout the country, but primarily in New Jersey. The greatest impediments to forming partnerships appear to be the negative attitudes of…

Major objectives of a proposed New Jersey cooperative project are (1) to establish 10 first-grade demonstration bilingual and bicultural classes in strategic target areas throughout the state (to help Spanish-speaking children extend skills in their native language and in English); (2) to prepare preservice and inservice workshops for personnel in…

The conference provided a forum where educators, members of public service organizations, members of the citizen education component of Research for Better Schools (RBS), representatives from industry and community groups, and representatives of the New Jersey Citizen Education Planning Committee could explore citizenship education in light of the…