Discusses contextual factors (geography, community idiosyncrasies, personal relationships, formal resource scarcity, community resource accessibility, external force influence, visibility, "Jack-of-All-Trades") affecting practices of rural child welfare workers. Points out similarities/differences in child welfare work in urban and rural…

Describes New York's Tutorial Outreach Program set up with funds from the Migrant Programs Branch (U.S. Department of Education) to help educate the children of migrant workers. Explains how the program could be used by rural social workers to further their efforts in helping clients. (Author/LC)

To aid teachers and students in their quest for information, an education specialist at an aquarium offers tips for organizing field trips, discusses home pages and search engines on the Internet, and gives detailed instructions for writing letters to institutions for information. Suggestions include writing joint letters if many students have the…

Single mothers' participation rates in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in rural Mississippi were influenced by community-level characteristics: educational attainment, racial composition, employment structure, civic engagement, and spatial concentration of poverty. Particularly, TANF participation rates were higher in the Delta and…

Recommends bringing community legal resource persons into the classroom for effective teaching of law-related courses. Discusses the value of using their expertise. Includes a list of those available to assist. Describes appropriate teaching methods, stressing student participation in role playing and simulations. (CH)

An elementary school in a poor neighborhood in San Francisco has confronted the problem of at-risk students through the turnaround strategy of accelerated education. The Daniel Webster School and schools in Redwood City have used cooperative learning, parent and community involvement, and increased student expectations to challenge traditional…

Contends that imagination and creativity go hand in hand and that creativity can and must be cultivated among students at all levels of education. Presents a classroom approach where students are the experts on a variety of global issues and projects. Includes 7 tables illustrating the approach and 21 descriptions of student roles. (CFR)

Discusses how teachers can guide young children to become aware of residential buildings in their hometowns in order to help understand cultural diversity in the global community. Maintains that, as children explore diverse forms of shelter, they begin to recognize cultural similarities. (CFR)

Maintains that Phillip Evergood's painting, "Sunny Side of the Street," is an appropriate metaphor for full inclusion of students in art education. Describes a model for collaboration among students, teachers, administrators, and community members to create an inclusive art education program. (CFR)

Provides suggestions on ways to include aerospace education in an integrated elementary school curriculum that focuses on content from the social and physical sciences and emphasizes process skills. Activities that build understanding of aerospace concepts are described. (BB)

A practicum was designed to keep an after-school and evening youth center in operation in spite of the loss of the main source of financial support (i.e., the contributions of the founding church). The program director, youth ministries director for an urban parish, sought additional support and implemented various strategies to keep the program…

This document is a report on the educational resources of the Hartford (Connecticut) Public Schools and the disparities between the Hartford Public Schools and other school districts. The report uses a reanalysis of existing publicly available data, including published reports of the Connecticut State Department of Education and other state and…

This document consists of two guides that were developed to assist small rural communities in northern Alberta (Canada) in conducting surveys. A community survey can be used to develop long- and short-range plans, define and solve problems, establish priorities, confirm public opinion, develop community support and stimulate action, and reveal new…

The chapters in this annotated bibliography list resources available to educators for an inclusive, multicultural approach to arts education. The first four chapters are limited to the four most-prevalent ethnic minority groups in Minnesota: (1) African American Resources; (2) Asian American Resources; (3) Hispanic American Resources; (4) Native…

The Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990, which champions arts education as an integral component of a holistic curriculum and assessment process, encourages schools to make use of resources from the community, including arts and cultural organizations, artists, folklorists, and craftspeople. This broadened approach to education provides…