The importance of process in community education is often overlooked. (IRT)

Meaningful involvement of the community is inherent in the community education process, which brings school and community together to seek answers to contemporary problems of mutual concern and to plan for future opportunities. (Author/IRT)

For the maximum benefits to accrue from community education, collaborative relationships must be established between the educational and community organizations involved. Impetus for this relationship could come from state mandates and through funding requirements. (Author/IRT)

The attitudes of those in charge of school public relations efforts were remarkably similar on the subject of policy formation regardless of whether the public relations directors were certified as administrators. (IRT)

Discusses changing negative attitudes toward schools to positive ones by the use of three strategies: promotion of public participation, emphasis on mutualism of values and attitudes, and employment of expert testimony. (Author/JM)