The report contains a summary of conclusions and recommendations concerning career education programs for handicapped students in Philadelphia as well as a specific report for each of the six projects funded during the 1979-80 school year. The following projects are described: Consumer and Homemaking for Retarded Educables, Consumer and Homemaking…

The looseleaf binder reports on the Educational Resource Centers (ERC) model program in Jackson County, Oregon, which fosters the mainstreaming of mildly handicapped elementary and secondary students (including learning disabled, educable mentally handicapped, emotionally disturbed, and physically handicapped). The ERC provides academic and social…

The Federally funded programs discussed in this report were designed to help students with significant problems in either reading or mathematics achievement in the regular classrooms of District 22 in Brooklyn, New York. Both the math and reading programs operated on a "pullout" basis, utilizng a diagnostic teaching approach. The two…

The Teaching English as a Second Language Program was developed as a response to the needs of a multicultural population. It provides services geared to the individual needs of non-English speaking children in elementary and junior high schools. Children were seen for five 40 to 45 minute periods weekly in groups of 10 to 12. An audio-lingual…

An 18-month project was conducted to create a microcomputer version of the National Center for Research in Vocational Education's Career Planning System (CPS) designed for use with mildly mentally retarded, learning disabled, and behaviorally handicapped middle school students. Separate formative and summative evaluations measured the…