This handbook uses a Title IX Ethnic Heritage Studies Project conducted in Illinois as a model for suggesting methods and approaches that might be used by school personnel in introducing multicultural studies to a school community setting. Specific strategies are outlined and described for the following areas: (1) funding; (2) staff training; (3)…

Included in this document are a selection of articles reprinted from SCIENCE AND CHILDREN. They focus on environmental education in the elementary school, and present a number of environmental perspectives. Those concerning general or background information are: an examination of environmental education: children's attitudes about the environment;…

A directory of local community resource personnel and their services which have been utilized by the Prince George's County Public Schools, Maryland for their career education program is presented. A standardized form was used to gain information from area industries and businesses regarding field trips, field activities, day long observations,…

This paper discusses a variety of ways school officials can effectively utilize participation by lay citizens in school affairs to maintain good public relations with the community. The important role of parents is stressed, and the value of homework assignments, teacher-parent group meetings, and individual teacher-parent conferences in…

This final volume of the report on the Educational Laboratory Theatre (ELT) Project provides (1) detailed accounts of four alternatives to the ELT Project, comprising with the ELT "the most ambitious and successful" educational efforts of professional Discovery, the Vanguard Theatre Project in Pittsburgh, the Tyrone Guthrie Student…

Rather than learn about the environment vicariously in the abstract setting of the classroom, it is proposed that students become active participants in activities in the community to develop the attitudes and skills necessary for environmental improvement within that setting. The activities of the project include: 1) twenty teachers and ten…

Described are three components of community-school programs in Richmond, Virginia, public schools. The document presents the general guidelines for development and implementation of these programs which operate with Office of Economic Opportunity funding. Discussed are the remedial reading, early childhood education, and school-community…

The Community-School Relations Workshop was designed to bring about improved relations between school personnel and the community that the school serves. This was done by bringing together parents, students, community representatives and school personnel in order to discuss the educational problems they share and to seek their solution. It was…

Career education represents an effort of the public school system to be responsive to changing community needs and values. A two-way communication program between the school and the community is vital if career education is to gain the necessary acceptance to be effective. This paper calls for a district-wide decentralized community relations and…

This discussion paper is written in the belief that the intra-curricular implications of social service have to be considered for integration into the secondary school curriculum. The community as a whole can add another dimension to the methods by which schools work towards the objective of social growth. Through the experience of community…

A high-school-level field experience program in economic education in Meridian, Mississippi, is described. The program provided exposure to various careers as well as experience with economic processes. Each student spent several weeks in a variety of business, industrial, and manufacturing organizations. Students learned the background of each…

A successful, flexible, system for coordinating volunteers in the Meigs, Ohio, local school district's elementary schools utilizes a file box containing the names of aides selected to participate in the volunteer program, the times and days they are available, and the services they can provide. A teacher needing a volunteer to perform certain…

Industrial education courses at a manufacturer's specially built education and training facility are taught by Northwestern State University professors in Shreveport, Louisiana, with adjunct professors from local industries. This cooperative program provides individual courses and degree programs to plant employees, employees of other companies,…

It is possible to provide a good health education program on a community college campus at a minimal cost and with a small staff when community resources are used effectively. (MM)

Describes a community-based alternative to institutionalization of the elderly. Calhoun County, Michigan's home health care services depend on community college resources and a growing model program training health care aides in a 150-clock-hour certificate program. Trained aides are readily absorbed into the community employment market. (TR)