Community education in New Jersey will benefit from legislation financing the construction of facilities that deliver community and social services. Five departments of state government are to cooperatively develop a minimum of ten local models of community education facilities. (Author/MLF)

Presents a community visioning model that represents an attempt to provide a proactive, future-oriented planning model. The process includes developing shared purposes, detailing a broad-based vision, organizing it into themes, and developing a broader vision for each theme. (JOW)

Describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of 15 community education centers in St. Louis, Missouri. Includes information about the evaluation approach and design, data management, policy changes, outcome expectations, findings and conclusions, and training needs. (JOW)

Discusses the importance of process evaluation in planning and improving community education programs. Offers a model for process evaluation and provides an example of how that model might be applied to a hypothetical community education program. (JG)

Challenges facing community educators include how to help communities create social capital and how to support families in creating better living and learning environments. Changing the institutional culture and creating communities within schools are important steps toward meeting the challenges. (JOW)

Dropout prevention programs in schools must work with the community to meet the needs of students and families. Types of parent and school-community involvement include parenting, communicating, volunteering, learning at home, and representing other parents. (JOW)

The group structure or advisory council model advocated by community educators enables individuals to have input into the goals of the organization and thus maintain a balance between the needs of all groups within the school community and the needs of the school. (Author)

Describes the Working Conference process, an approach for involving a diverse group of people to discuss and then create action plans around critical school/community issues. Before the conference, participants are asked to prepare themselves and, during the conference, to use their knowledge, experience, and perspectives to collaborate on issues…

Motivated by the belief that there is a pressing need for more research in community education, this article sets forth some ideas about how the field might stimulate increased activity in this area, and develops a model for a research and planning division in local community education programs. (Author)

Describes a comprehensive plan whereby citizens can become involved actively in the affairs of their community through district advisory councils, citywide advisory committees for special areas of concern, and a citywide citizens assembly. (Author/DN)

Summarizes nine program evaluation projects. Lists a source person for each project. (JG)

Describes a university-based program for training community education directors, with recommendations for initiating the program. (DW)

Explains some of the reasons for existing confusion related to the purpose of Community Education. Places the concept in a different perspective by presenting a model of the community education program and process. (Author/DN)