Describes experiment called Bonjour Seattle designed to build interest in a foreign people through a citywide program of cultural and commercial events. Program built bridges between education, business and government, between an ethnic group and a community, and between the Pacific Northwest and France. (Author/BK)

Discusses a network created for the purpose of making global perspectives an integral and recognized element of the curriculum. Support groups include teachers, administrators, the board of education, and community residents. (KC)

Improvement of a school's discipline program can begin with the opinion inventories published by the National Study of School Evaluation. Once teachers, students, and parents have assessed strengths and weaknesses, an appropriate plan can be chosen. This article outlines five approaches. (WD)

Relates the experience of the Bettendorf (Iowa) school system in seeking widespread community involvement in planning for drastic budget cuts. The participants' ranking of school programs is included. (WD)

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

A positive attitude toward the development of a local educational program, actively incorporating community involvement, can pave the way to high morale and academic success and provoke an optimistic outlook on education's future. (Author/PGD)

An examination of the mandated acceptance of developmentally disabled individuals as rehabilitation clients is presented. Appropriate services are detailed in three stages: special education focus, community integration focus, and rehabilitation counseling focus. The stages have been proven effective in other similar disabilities. (Author/PHR)

Discusses the role of the federal government vis-a-vis youth programs and a change in policy from fostering youth passivity to fostering youth participation. (SS)

After years of navigating independently, some 62 Hispanic organizations are "getting it together" and presenting a united front through the Forum. Article describes the awakening of Hispanic consciousness, the factors behind it, and the organization and mission of the Forum itself. (DS)

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)

Nine areas of community life that would fit logically into the content materials of business courses in the secondary schools are listed, and ways in which they may be used to supplement classroom experiences are suggested. (HD)

Notes that the family support and positive youth development movements represent considerable change in both philosophical and programmatic approaches to the delivery of services. Examines the key elements and the relative success of family support and youth development practice, compares the two streams of literature and programming, and suggests…

America today is experiencing the erosion of public commitment to public schools. Argues that change must start with the community and its concerns. Deliberative forums can produce an agenda for action linked by a shared sense of purpose and directions. (MLF)

Current community-engagement models, which relegate the public's role to insignificant activities, play into special-interest groups' hands. One new approach creates alternative forms of community forums to encourage public deliberation. Forums frame issues to invite deliberation; allow participants to deliberate, not debate issues; and provide…

Represents stories of eight former composition students, Appalachian working class women, who move from silence in the academy to voice in their communities to a more self-confident identity without destroying the community from which they came. Argues that compositionists need to consider the two-edged nature of literacy as well as several other…