Guidelines for advisory councils in centers and counties where Seasonally Employed Agricultural Workers' Programs are operated are suggested in this document. Objectives, membership, meetings, officers, functions, program development, council members' purposes, and inservice programs are covered. A constitution and by-laws for advisory councils…

Several explanations are proposed for community attitudes about the school system. The author claims that the most important factor affecting these attitudes may be the school's failure to develop effective ways of carrying on continuous dialogue with its community. The author specifies that an educator should subject his community to a regular…

The internal resources an agency devotes to its own programmatic review and assessment can be most effectively related to the agency's administrative decision-making if the agency is self-evaluating and uses Havelock's model of linkage between formal research dissemination and utilization as a framework for the integration of program evaluation…

A case study shows the slow process of rebuilding a community and how the community educator can facilitate internal growth and development. (Author/MLF)

Social agencies and community information centers contact hundreds of adolescents, and adults, who are potential candidates for higher education. Although responsible for helping clients with educational planning, the counselors at these agencies usually lack access to the regular workshops and information resources that are available to high…

Discusses factors to be considered by a university in launching an adult/continuing education program. Information covers identification of needs and resources, target groups, anticipation of problems, and program selectivity and specificity. (SH)

Describes Polish folk high schools, which provide free postsecondary leadership training for rural young people as organizers and instructors in community cultural-educational work and in physical education and sports. The training leads to employment in rural community centers and social and recreational clubs. (MF)

The underlying purpose of instruction in community leadership is to help teachers learn how to participate effectively with other institutional leaders in the solution of pressing educational and social problems. (JD)

Described is a vocational habilitation model in which five mentally retarded institutionalized adolescents and adults served as community volunteers within a nonprofit organization. (CL)

The first part of this annotated listing describes print and audio-visual materials and projects and programs that deal with using international students--foreign students and American students who have lived overseas--as educational resources. The second part describes community organizations that promote international exchange and international…

The health knowledge of crisis intervention volunteers was investigated with volunteers from church, school, and private agencies. (GW)

The decision to conduct a "Needs Assessment of the Haitian-American Community in Hillsborough County" was made to provide a quasi-scientific or a research foundation to our future intervention in this community. More specifically, the needs assessment aimed to: (1) Identify the priorities in the needs of the Haitian-American community,…

AEL's contract with the U.S. Department of Education includes work partnering with faith-based organizations in Kanawha County, West Virginia, to (1) build their capacity to better serve at-risk youth and (2) document what best helps such organizations to successfully impact youth and their families. One of the first faith-based organizations with…

This paper illustrates the complexity of the organizations and political processes at work in organizing for school reform in Chicago, Illinois. In addition to community organizations, Local School Councils have emerged as their own force in organizing and advocating to improve both individual schools and citywide policies. Citywide education…

School reform in Chicago, the third largest school district in the country, has been a major public concern for decades. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) suffered through financial crises, a bloated bureaucracy, and repeated teacher strikes, as academic achievement plummeted and dropout rates soared. In 1987, U.S. Secretary…