A recent community wide reading program offers a valuable opportunity for students and teachers to respond to literature by attending community wide events, creating art, and developing relationships with community members.

Young adult literature (YAL) provides readers with a multivoiced palette that embraces cultures, genders, ages, sexualities, and experiences. Within this array are stories that feature characterswho deny elements of their identities or experiences that they find challenging or difficult. Multivoiced literature's treatment of these attempts takes…

Teachers should draw from the resources of their economic, educational, governmental, and religious communities in teaching composition. (DD)

Prescribes engaging the public in the actual pains and rewards of reading and writing as a way of battling the public schools' negative image. (JL)

Offers seven community service projects for secondary school students designed to improve communication skills and promote civic involvement. (PRA)

To overcome the financial difficulties involved in filmmaking as an educational medium, the school described in this article introduced the course as an interdisciplinary activity involving the community and produced a film on integration at the secondary level. (MM)

Individualization of instruction is not likely to take place prior to community realization of the failure of present arrangements.

A high school general education teacher tells about her classroom: the physical environment, the behavior and attitudes of students and teacher, and the need for community involvement to insure success in open education. (SP)

The High School Puente Project, one of several outreach efforts of the University of California, is an innovative program that is designed to assist traditionally underserved students. Puente builds on community and the idea of "familia" and features a strong component of professional developments for teachers as well as structural…

Describes an eighth grade reading teacher's program which involved students visiting elderly adults in nursing homes. Argues that the experience provided the context for students to deal with responsibility in a realistic setting, and that the positive circumstances encouraged them to share their experiences in oral and written form. (RS)