"America Goes Back to School" is a nationwide initiative to encourage and support family and community involvement in improving children's learning. This activity kit provides tools to help families and community members develop and become involved in partnerships to improve students' academic success. The kit's "organizer's…

The first issue of the newsletter for the Institute for Responsive Education disseminates information to help in identifying people, places, projects, and new ideas in participatory education. The lead article discusses the purposes and role of the institute as studying and assisting citizen participation in the decision-making process of local…