The Native American Needs Assessment Action Plan is designed to assist educators and administrators in addressing the needs and areas of possible opportunity that have been identified through the annual Native American Needs Assessment conducted by the North Dakota (ND) Department of Public Instruction. The Action Plan is organized around areas of…

REL Pacific at McREL, one of 10 Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES), serves educators in American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia (Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap), Guam, Hawai'i, the Republic of the…

Summaries of four studies on school community relations, student achievement and community support are provided in this report. The studies abstracted are: (1) "School-Community Relations, Student Achievement, and Conflict Resolution," by John E. Ingram, Jr.; (2) "School-Community Relations and Student Achievement in Communities of Differing…

Abstracts of 12 documents in the ERIC system focus on the varieties of community schools. Topics covered include shared facilities, legal matters, and a discussion of the philosophical assumptions and attitudes underlying the community education movement. One document contains mainly Canadian entries, and two are literature reviews. (MLF)

This book documents examples of intergenerational learning, reflecting a wide range of approaches and goals. It describes a literacy enhancement project in which senior citizens work with elementary students, an intergenerational orchestra whose members range in age from 6 to 88, an intergenerational living history theater project, and an…

The 11 documents and articles in this annotated bibliography provide administrators with sources from which to obtain a basic understanding of the current status of conflict resolution theory and practice as it applies to education. Not all the entries are taken directly from the education literature; the references include information from…

This chapter of "The Best of the Best of ERIC," Volume 2, contains 16 summaries of documents and journal articles on school volunteer programs, all of which are indexed in either "Resources in Education" or "Current Index to Journals in Education." The materials included deal with various aspects of this topic, such as the coordination and…

Reviews the results of 29 studies on the effectiveness of school consultation published between 1972 and 1977. Of the studies reviewed, 76 percent reported at least one or more positive effects resulting from consultation interventions. Despite the problems entailed in measuring consultation outcomes, the practice does appear to be effective.…

Describes the three main factors that make one elementary school a community, including: constructing community in each classroom and throughout the school; reflecting the surrounding community in diversity of students and staff; and connecting with the surrounding community through participation, partnership, and service. (SM)

Books, dissertations, theses, newspaper and journal articles, and research reports on topics related to race and schools are cited. The 266 citations are divided into 21 areas of interest. (MK)

In this paper, perspectives for planning future research in urban education are suggested. Results of a review of data from almost 600 large city programs on action learning, basic skills, cultural pluralism and school-community interaction are listed. A selective bibliography on urban education covers the problems of educating urban youth, fiscal…

This review is presented as a response to major questions related to school and public library cooperation. Its specific objectives are to: (1) indicate the present status of cooperation between school and public libraries; (2) present a historical perspective within which to evaluate the progress of current efforts; (3) identify future trends and…

This publication presents 22 annotated items from the ERIC collection on community schools. The literature reviewed covers such topics as development of a community education program, the role of the community school director, year-round community schools, financing community education, the community education curriculum, and community education…

Describes a project which developed an alternative model for determining the economic impact of community colleges in New Jersey. Explains methods used to substitute for student and staff surveys, and the retail gravity model. Includes the instrument used to determine the individual college and statewide impacts and a bibliography. (AYC)

This resource is to provide the initiate to service-learning with a condensed list of the most frequently cited books, articles, and authors in service-learning bibliographies. The references in this bibliography were compiled by cross-referencing seven bibliographies on service-learning. Each of the references is identified by two or more of the…