This guide is designed to help the adult education director spread the word about adult education to employers, legislators, city and county officials, school and agency administrators, and students' family, friends, and community. A timeline for sharing success stories is suggested. Detailed information is provided on starting a Sharing Success…

This is a report of the first national exhibition and conference on multilingual word processing in voluntary organizations and community groups held in London, England in June 1988. The keynote speech of the conference, "Why Multi-ethnic Systems Matter" and a speech entitled "What Users and Manufacturers Should Be Talking…

This document presents materials covering the television campaign against drunk driving called "TEAM" (Techniques for Effective Alcohol Management). It is noted that TEAM's purpose is to promote effective alcohol management in public facilities and other establishments that serve alcoholic beverages. TEAM sponsors are listed, including…

With the Bicentennial Bookshelf as a foundation stone, communities will be able to stimulate public discourse on the meaning of constitutionalism in the United States through the use of this guide. Guidelines and model programs are provided for initiating reading and discussion programs, conferences, lectures series, and seminars and institutes.…

Reports a case study to determine what organizations are involved in the environmental quality movement. (SH)

This article outlines some of the creative and practical things taking place in the East Bay Regional Park District as well as its guiding philosophies and policies. (PD)

This paper reports on the organization, development, and implementation of a "grass-roots" community approach to the problem of alcoholism. It includes a detailed discussion of its treatment services to active alcoholics. Emphasis is given to the critical role and importance of counseling and counselor tasks both within and without the program.…

Discussed a program of group discussion, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association, a New York-based, non-partisan organization for world affairs education, that may have all the features needed to enhance its community service involvement with a minimum of staff and expense. (Author/RK)

Demands for increased participation of community organizations in educational decisionmaking give rise to questions regarding their representativeness. (Author)

Describes a drug education program designed for elementary schools that attempts to deal with the causes of drug abuse rather than the symptoms. (Author/DN)

The subject of alcohol, to be taught effectively, should run through the entire curriculum as part of education for choosing lifelong values and attitudes. (Author/MLF)

Considered the relationship of individual art to a planning-design process that offered opportunities to apply concepts that unify isolated categories of society and brought artists into a working relationship with other groups of people. (Author/RK)

The 1978 contract negotiations between the teachers and the school board of Philadelphia were important enough to draw in four identified types of third party: government officials (notably the mayor), neutral mediators, community interest groups (representing political, financial, parental, and general public interests), and the news media. The…

THE GOALS OF THE CONFERENCE WERE TO AROUSE THE INTEREST OF COMMUNITIES IN TENNESSEE AND THE MID-SOUTH IN THE ACADEMICALLY TALENTED, TO INFORM BOTH PROFESSIONAL AND LAY PEOPLE ABOUT CURRENT THEORY AND PRACTICES IN THIS AREA OF EDUCATION, TO SUGGEST SPECIFIC PILOT PROJECTS FOR LAY GROUPS SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THEIR BOARDS OF EDUCATION, AND TO…