A short history of the Community Free School, the relationship of scattered schools to the pedagogical model, a presentation of the substance of the study, and its results and conclusions. (DM)

Calls for an end to all divisiveness between vocational and nonvocational programs so that business and office education can get on with attacking more serious problems. (Editor)

The changes hoped for and expected in the coming years, though they are not likely to be heralded as the direct issue of radical Third World" philosophies, will be focused on individual human development and dialogical participation. (Author)

Emphasizes the low priorities that the Administration's planners of Health Maintenance Organizations have assigned toward correcting the maldistribution of health delivery and community/consumer participation, and reviews some of the health bills already submitted to Congress. (JM)

Argues that action by community groups on the local level can help foster three concepts of better broadcasting: diversity, localism, and balance in dealing with news and controversial issues; illustrates this argument with the case of WLBT-TV, Jackson, Mississippi. (JM)

Description of the Public Service Careers (PSC) program at Harvard Extension School for educationally disadvantaged adults. (DM)

The professional mental health community, which had romanticized the concept of community control, is presently becoming disenchanted with it due to the lack of facility and skills for working with it. The task is to understand and evaluate community control and to alter only those aspects found destructive to community well-being. (DM)

Author cautions educators that improvement in educational practices must be evident before the public's attitudes about schools can be changed significantly. (Author/MB)

Optimal conditions for child development and preschool learning can be provided in away-from-home programs that operate in a cross-cultural community configuration supported by professionals. (Editor)

Community participation has many faces, but is moving increasingly away from a group notion toward the individual participant, that is, each and every parent and student as educational consumer. (Author)

What appears to be new conceptions in education may really be a new package with a new name, containing the same old product. (Author/MB)

School Boards of the future will have to be politically controlled, members will have monetary compensation, and boards will represent an approximate 15,000 to 20,000 students rather than the traditional 1,000 to 3,500. (Author/MB)

Author comments on the campus revolt at Northwestern University and states that educational reforms demanded by campus strikes are designed to open the university to the community, to student government and to all political and social expediencies. (IR)