Educators today are challenged with the task of designing curricula and standards for students of varying abilities. While technology and innovation steadily improve classroom learning, teachers and administrators continue to struggle in developing the best methodologies and practices for students with disabilities. "Models for Effective…

During the 1989-90 budgetary process, the Bangor (Maine) School Department established "blended funding" of special and regular education accounts, so that nonhandicapped students might also benefit from resource-room services. An evaluation study showed that teachers felt less pressured to label borderline students as special-education…

New York University studied the impact of increases in instructional group size in resource rooms and speech service in the New York City Public Schools by examining increases in 45 public elementary, middle, and senior high schools. Questionnaires were distributed to parents, and teachers and administrators were interviewed. Observations of…

Directed to leaders and administrators in education, the monograph reviews issues, practices, and possibilities in the interface between special educators and general educators at the service delivery or decision making levels. The first chapter examines the development of public educational systems with sections on the historical context, the…

This research project analyzed British screening and special educational provisions for the estimated 18 percent of the primary school population who have mild learning difficulties in the basic skills. The study sought to examine policy and practice at every level from the local education authority (LEA) to the child. Data sources included…

This document contains tabular displays of data pertaining to the number of handicapped pupils served by South Carolina public schools for the 1985-86 academic year. Charts provide information on: (1) public school programs for handicapped children (reported by category of handicapping condition and program model); (2) handicapped children…

This paper reports the results of a study of 1,300 special education students attending 81 elementary, middle, and high schools in Massachusetts that examined the patterns of variation in services delivered to students with disabilities in relation to student characteristics. Results of the study indicate that the majority of these students spent…

Initiated in response to a Congressional requirement in the 1983 amendments to the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, this report provides nationally representative estimates of the per-pupil expense of educating students with disabilities. The estimates are derived from information gathered through a 1985-86 school year survey in a…