Fear of contracting AIDS has exaggerated the feeling of isolation that AIDS patients experience. This article discusses issues surrounding the spread of AIDS and provides information to deal with AIDS as a health issue, instead of a moral or religious one. (MT)

Synthesizes studies of the effects of modifying the academic calendar in grades K-12 to do away with the long summer break without increasing the length of the school year. Findings show that evidence on such modification is weak, but that modified calendars are associated with higher achievement for economically disadvantaged students. (SLD)

Study asks adult members (including elders) of a rural Paiute tribe in Nevada about issues affecting local youth for the purposes of determining program needs and developing and implementing new programs or program changes. Describes the role that agencies providing services to reservations can play in assisting Native American communities with…

This article looks at the controversy over video games; arguments for and against them are offered, along with a list of regulations in force around the country and nine important factors agencies should consider before leasing the machines. (JM)

Explores relationship between per capita expenditures (inputs) for selected public services (law enforcement, education, medical, libraries, parks) and two output measures (objective performance measure and subjective measures of 8,882 citizens' perceptions in 100 different size counties in North Carolina.) Indicates per capita expenditures are…

Drawing on Michael Halloran's genre of public proceedings, the Iran-contra hearings can be viewed from a celebratory or epideictic perspective, with several conceptualizations of the genre combined to illuminate the functions of the hearings. The primary function of the hearings, at least from an epideictic viewpoint, was the reassurance of the…

It is possible to outline neighborhood categories based on residential attitudes of neighborhood identification. These three neighborhood categories are: (1) emergent; (2) traditional; and (3) immediate. Each category is likely to make different kinds of demands on policy makers. (RLV)

Study in three small Louisiana towns introduced operational refinements to a systemic model of individual attachment to community in which length of residence, social position, life cycle stage, and local economic conditions influence social networks, participation in school and community groups, and community satisfaction. Discusses implications…

Community Involvement for Responsible Citizenship (CIRC) is a five-year Elementary Secondary Education Act Title IV-C project administered by the Allegheny Intermediate Unit. Seven school districts formed a community citizenship committee to define citizenship and delineate expectations of citizens living in those communities. To identify…

This literature review points out physical discipline problems and their implications to physical education. Topics discussed include: (1) parent, community, and educator attitudes about discipline; (2) special discipline problems in physical education classes; (3) discipline approaches; and (4) special problem behaviors. (CB)

Suggests that the most important aspect of successful school desegregation in Seattle was the quality of the political process. Identifies main participants and their organizations which comprise the public decision-making system. Discusses these in light of the political values which characterize Seattle's political culture. (Author/GC)

Both the community and the teaching profession are claiming ownership of the problem of the impact of a teacher's private life on his employment status. An analysis uses a construct developed by Joseph R. Gusfield with components of ownership, causation, and political responsibility. (44 references) (MLF)

This study focuses on the tension between community norms/values and teacher behavior in Canada. A series of instances where teachers in public or denominational schools are accused of misconduct are presented, and these instances are traced from their beginnings to their ends (that is, to the resolution or acceptance of the social conflict). Part…

Previous studies of mass media consumption behavior within cultural boundaries have yielded important information regarding the selection of communication channels to obtain information by members of specific cultures. However, the selection of mass media information sources in a cross-cultural setting has received little attention in the…

Through a review of current research, this article analyzes the dynamic process in which the community and the schools interact during school desegregation. Available from Duke University Press, Box 6697 College Station, Durham, NC 27708. (Author/IRT)