The most common reason for the failure of schools to offer sex education is fear of negative community reaction. Ways to break down opposition by community or church groups to the implementation of sex education programs are discussed. (CJ)

Reviews the present perceptions of interest group structure and function. Suggests ways that superintendents and school districts can best cope with and utilize interest groups without manipulating them. (Author/GC)

Research indicates that the ethnic composition of a community is of greater importance in explaining income and attitude differences that are the individual's own ethnic attitudes. The study was conducted on a Moshav community in Israel. (Author/KC)

Synanon is a community that offers the elderly an alternative to the lives of quiet desperation that many experience. It explores the myth that older people are inflexible and cannot change. (Author)

This article provides school psychologists with important information regarding child and adolescent mental health problems that have been shown to be related to community violence exposure. Implications for school psychologists who are working with youth exposed to community violence or at-risk populations are discussed. (Contains 86 references…

Presents some examples of how reading education and the community can come together. Divides the presentation into two types of community involvement: bringing the community into the schools and integrating classrooms into the community. (MG)

Author visited a school in Cornwall that was helping to revitalize a village community. (Editor/RK)

In order to assess relationships and problems in drawing conclusions regarding productive school practices, a study analyzed the 1984 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data on homework and reading achievement among 13-year-olds. A previous study (Lange, 1987) examining the NAEP data set concluded that the number of hours spent on…

Presented at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (53d, San Francisco, February 28 - March 5, 1969).

CLOSE AND THOROUGH INTEGRATION OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY IS THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATIONAL PARKS. SOCIAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES ARE THUS MAXIMIZED. THREE ORGANIZATIONAL METHODS ARE DISCUSSED--HORIZONTAL, VERTICAL, AND PYRAMIDAL. THE HORIZONTAL ORGANIZATION WOULD GROUP SEVERAL SCHOOLS OF ONE LEVEL. A VERTICAL…

A STUDY WAS MADE OF A REPRESENTATIVE MIDWESTERN SCHOOL DISTRICT TO DETERMINE SCHOOL LEADERS' AWARENESS OF (1) INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE INFLUENTIAL IN THE DECISIONMAKING PROCESS FOR SCHOOL DISTRICT REORGANIZATION AND (2) ACTIONS PERFORMED BY EACH INFLUENTIAL INDIVIDUAL IN THE DECISIONAL PROCESS. THE RESEARCH PROCEDURE INCLUDES IDENTIFICATION AND RANK…

It is the responsibility of educators to initiate and exert leadership in developing an adaptive system to promote educational change. It is essential that educators be concerned with the total development of an adaptive system in the community, cooperating with other group leaders outside of education, and not feasible educational changes within…

The goal of this panel was to generate scientific knowledge on how the organizational, administrative, physical, personal, and social aspects of the classroom, school, district, and community support instructional personnel in reaching educational goals. A matrix was developed using locational variables (within school and outside school) and…

This paper presents a rationale for studying the effect of a community's news media resources on the diversity of topics that the public considers important (the agenda). Research on media effects has followed a model that implicitly assumes that the important effects consist of the persuasion of individuals to adopt specific positions. This paper…