Describes a cooperative community education program encompassing 12 school districts and 18 communities in the Battle Creek, Michigan, metropolitan area. (Author/DN)

Argues against closing schools and presents a list of uses for the excess space caused by declining enrollments. The uses include offering space to the community, creating teacher training centers, creating senior citizen centers, and offering space to private enterprises that would participate in on-the-job training programs for students. (IRT)

The ASPIRA Association, an organization serving Latino youth through leadership development, education, and advocacy, is sponsoring the Hispanic Community Mobilization for Dropout Prevention, a project focused on increasing parental and community involvement in promoting high school retention and academic achievement. (SK)

The effectiveness of 21st Century Community Learning Centers, an after school program in St. Louis, Missouri, public schools, compared 61 participants (not randomly selected) with 217 nonparticipants. Program participants performed better in math. (JOW)

Reports a study which sought to identify and then to prioritize the goals for community service programs in Florida's 28 public community colleges on a state-wide basis. Makes specific recommendations based on the results. (DC)

The public education system of the future will be focused on providing education for all members of the community. (Author/MLF)

Suggests that the real challenge to community education and to community councils is to have each council focus on curriculum development and evaluation. (Author/DN)

Some school space is "surplus" only when measured by the old needs of traditional education. When considered for the broader needs of the community education concept, the space is an opportunity for better communities. (Author)

Many minority students face problems when attending community colleges. Adjustment to college life requires skills and knowledge for understanding the higher education system that minority students often lack. Minority students could benefit by being involved in decisions affecting them; an orientation to higher education is essential. (JOW)

A model for establishing linkages among agencies in community education has four levels: communication, cooperation, coalition, and collaboration. (SK)

Effective community education depends upon designated leadership placed high in the administrative hierarchy of an existing educational agency. This article lists the three major functions of the organizational and administrative structure in community education and six roles for community colleges. (DC)

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)

Presents recommendations of a national panel of teachers, parents, principals, and community partners for policy changes in the following areas: family-school-community collaboration, partnership development, leadership development, standards and assessments, school accountability, school-to-work transitions, and welfare-to-work transitions. (SK)

Advocates community college continuing education programs in industrial plants and other off-campus buildings and outlines the structural organization needed for such programs and the roles for the director of in-plant education. Such programs must be cooperatively planned by personnel from the college and the participating business firm. (DC)

Ecologically based theories provide a way to view educational processes in a larger context than the school-based experiments of the traditional reformers. (Author)