School-Community Relations.

This article provides a broad interpretation on research in the area of school-community relations of schools in the U.S. The authors of this article pointed out some of the shifts in methods of attack and emphasized the importance of school and local community co-operation through lay participation as a means of dealing with the attacks. They also found that the most persistent criticisms appeared in publications affiliated with national patriotic organizations. The criticisms were usually to the effect that the development of patriotism was hampered by the frequent debunking of national heroes. The authors concluded that criticisms in popular magazines were indicative of dissatisfaction with specific aspects of public education rather than with all public education.