Educational goals state broadly and in long-range terms what it is hoped the educational process will achieve, but not how those goals are to be achieved. Goals are preferably set before educational needs are assessed. Goal setting is most effective when ten suggestions are followed: (1) identify and analyze strengths and weaknesses; (2) involve a…

A district supervisor of reading recommends the formation of teacher/parent advisory boards for reading and other curriculuar areas, based upon his first year of experience working with one. (RD)

Participatory management, involving the delegation of power and authority, provides several strategies to involve the community in the decision-making process. (Author/MLF)

A description of managing community involvement in the school planning process. (MLF)

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New Jersey's legislatively mandated policy for a "thorough and efficient" (T & E) education requires each district to develop a community profile. This profile can be used by an Educational Goal Development Committee as an aid in establishing community involvement in the goal-setting process, as required by T & E regulations.…

The use of advisory committees for the development, maintenance, and continued exchange of information for hospitality education programs is discussed. Two types of committees are the general advisory type, which can deal with entire programs on institutional and community levels, and the single-field type, which helps develop programs in specific…

This brochure describes junior college advisory committees as groups of persons who represent industry and assist in organizing curriculum, advise on material procurement, keep the college current on industry practices, coordinate programs with the community, assist in student selection, guide instructors, provide moral support and public…

This chapter in "The Best of the Best of ERIC" contains 14 annotations of documents and journal articles on advisory committees, all of which are indexed in the ERIC system. Materials on student and community involvement, planning and utilization of advisory committees, and other topics are annotated. (DS)

Suggestions for obtaining community involvement of minority groups. (Author)

A community involvement success story about an advisory committee that began its work almost one year before the purchase of the school site. (Author)

Describes three types of trilateral bargaining practices that allow third parties structural access to the collective bargaining process. The three categories are trilateral prebargaining, bargaining, and postbargaining practices. Concludes that trilateral practices will not greatly disrupt the bargaining process. (Author/IRT)

This paper asserts that one part of a comprehensive control system for school construction projects is a citizen oversight committee. It suggests that citizen oversight committees are a cost-effective and politically important method for supplementing a school board in its monitoring and oversight functions. Inaddition, the committee acts as a…

A sagacious school board will ensure that its school system meets the needs of the whole community by adopting a policy supporting use of school facilities for adult education programs and activities. (Author/JM)