Involving students in community-based participatory research is a useful mechanism for engaging the community and helping it build future capacity. This article describes student involvement in a series of community-based environmental health research projects with migrant and seasonal farmworkers in North Carolina. High school, undergraduate, graduate, and professional school students have participated

Results of an evaluation of the impact of 1 of 4 population education units offered as part of the 9th grade urban studies curriculum in the Baltimore City school system are reported. The theme of the unit, called B-more or Baltimore, is that Baltimore City has qualities and problems similar to those of other urban areas but is also unique. 908 students exposed to the B-more unit and 205 controls participated

The author comments on the lack of evaluation of population education, and argues that such work has been stalled by confusion over what population education is and what it is supposed to do. Contradictory opinions about what is to be included in or excluded from the definition of population education, and whether it should be "value-fair" or "value-based" are cited, as well as various opinions concerning

The attempt was made in this study to collect descriptive data pertaining to the status of population education within the curricula of Florida's secondary schools. In April 1974 a 4-page questionnaire was mailed to 300 randomly selected Florida middle, junior high, and senior high schools. The 23-item questionnaire was designed to obtain data from classroom teachers on a broad range of subjects and

The most significant expansion of population education in the U.S. has occurred over the past 5-year period. The environmental movement of the 1960 decade established a foundation on which population education quickly developed in the 1970 decade and gained acceptance in the population establishment and among funding agencies. During the years 1970-1976, several private organizations became actively

An attitudinal scale on population problems is constructed. Although the determination of attitudes of Americans toward population problems is meaningful in itself, an additional effort is made to demonstrate the empirical validity of acknowledged variables. Data were collected in the Tulsa Oklahoma Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area using a stratified proportionate sample. The 372 respondents

At a 3-day workshop in population education for 50 secondary school teachers, 4 members of the Baltimore City Public School system were appointed with 4 members of Planned Parenthood Association of Maryland to deal with the inherent difficulties of bringing population awareness to city children, many of whom in Baltimore are both poor and black. This group believed that it was essential that racial