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Download full textWildemuth, Barbara M. – 1983
This brief overview of minimum competency testing and disabled high school students discusses: the inclusion or exclusion of handicapped students in minimum competency testing programs; approaches to accommodating the individual needs of handicapped students; and legal issues. Surveys of states that have mandated minimum competency tests indicate…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Graduation Requirements, High Schools, Legal Problems
The Supreme Court on "Hazelwood": A Reversal on Regulation of Student Expression. ERIC Digest No. 8.
Eveslage, Thomas – 1988
This digest reviews earlier court decisions which led up to the Supreme Court's 1988 "Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier" decision and also discusses the "Hazelwood" case's implications for freedom of student expression. The digest cites various documents in the ERIC database which deal with student journalism, censorship,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Censorship, Faculty Advisers, Freedom of Speech
Naylor, Michele – 1988
The educational excellence movement has made an academic curriculum a high priority for all high school students, including the 40 percent who do not go on to college. The joint efforts approach to incorporating basic skills into the vocational curriculum is based on the following assumptions: (1) academic skills are embedded in vocational…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Basic Skills, Competency Based Education
Herron, Carol A. – 1985
Most language and international studies high schools (LISHS) are established as public magnet schools and stress voluntary enrollment. Generally, the academic curriculum emphasizes foreign languages, social sciences, and communications for participation in an international environment. Students are expected to graduate with functional competence…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Administrative Problems, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Enrichment
Burnett, Gary; Walz, Garry – 1994
This ERIC digest examines the growth and nature of juvenile gangs and the growing problem they present in the nation's public schools. It explores the characteristics of gangs, the impact gangs are having on public schools, why gangs develop and why students join them, what the schools' responses have been to gangs, and effective interactions for…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Delinquency, Dropouts, Drug Use
Bagin, Carolyn Boccella – 1989
This digest explains basic elements of standardized tests in order to help teachers in making students feel comfortable about taking such tests. Usually created by commercial publishers, standardized tests are designed to provide a common measure of students' performance. They help compare an individual student's performance with the performance…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, High School Students, High Schools
