Comprehensive community education programs can help make the best use of available facilities. A number of counties have joined with school boards to develop one-stop shopping centers for community services. (Author/MLF)

Community colleges and community schools must take steps to work together to further their common interests in life-long learning and the continuing education of the "adult" learner. This will avoid a wasting of resources, duplication of effort and facilities, and needless expenditures. (DC)

Proposes a list of actions proper to community colleges and community schools which, if taken together, will provide total community education. Also includes responses to a survey of approximately 900 two-year colleges conducted to evaluate the current status of cooperation. (DC)

After requesting, receiving, and evaluating information from 10 community colleges, the writer assimilated the ideas for cooperation which are presented here as a model for all community colleges. Cooperative programs at five community colleges are detailed. (DC)

Elements of a home-school-community relationship model are goals (academic achievement, institutional legitimacy, support, and effective relations), programs, and processes (communication, involvement, participation, and resolution). The model can be applied to contemporary issues: diversity, varied stakeholders, school-business partnerships,…

Describes the general move toward community education in South Australia. Considers two pilot projects initiated to ascertain if community centers can successfully be located on school campuses. (Author/DN)

The conventional leader-follower concept implies that some are leaders and others are not. Leadership involves anyone and everyone who takes steps to move a community. Too many problems cannot be solved without an engaged community. (SK)

Instead of attacking problems on an individual basis, structures should be built to enable communities to become healthy places for families. Communities must become empowered to determine their priorities and fight for them. (JOW)

Suggests some general procedures for establishing a community education program, which have been successfully employed in communities across the nation. The procedures involve meeting with school and community groups, establishing advisors and directors, surveying community needs, and evaluating programs designed to meet community needs.…

Describes the development of a community education program for the urban Indian population of Phoenix. (DN)

A speech presented at a Community Education Workshop in Birmingham, Alabama, that describes the development and operation of a community school program designed to give people what they need and to follow their interests. (Author/DN)

Clarifies for community educators the direction and focus of community education and determines priorities for the urban situation. (Author)

The importance of the junior high school in a total community education program is in meeting needs of communities as opposed to a single community. (Author/MF)

Describes community education in Birmingham, Alabama, as the epitome of citizen involvement yielding effective family-school-community partnerships. Focuses on coordination of available resources to serve the needs and interests of citizens from preschool through older adults. (JOW)