The monograph presents an analysis of screening programs for handicapped children in New York State school districts. An introductory section considers such factors as the general parameters of a screening program and characteristics of a good screening program. Major policy options for screening are seen to include decisions regarding universal…

Evaluated with approximately 200 Head Start personnel in Iowa were two staff training models for serving handicapped children in Head Start--an experiential training model and a seminar-oriented training model. In the experiential model, Head Start staff (directors, education coordinators, health coordinators, and teachers) spent 2 days in a…

Established to initiate innovative, creative communication channels among medical schools in Michigan, the Michigan Medical Schools Council of Deans encourages cooperative efforts in program areas and long-range planning. This article describes recent projects and activities of the Council which has a full-time paid staff. (JT)

Article condensed from a speech given at the Library Section of the Ontario Educational Association's convention in March, 1969.

The history and current problems of adoption services provided by the state of New York are discussed. First, statutory reforms since the creation in 1968 of the nation's first statewide adoption subsidy program are reviewed and adoption services aimed at providing permanent homes for children in foster care are described. Subsequently, the…

Contained within this report are summaries of activities of the New York State Science Service for the years 1977-1978. Within the introduction, the specific goals for the Science Service are listed. Activities within the following categories are summarized: services and advisory activities, education in honorarium and volunteer programs, grant or…

California's approach to training regular education teachers to deal with mainstreamed handicapped students as mandated by P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, is described. Training focuses on preservice education and the state's development of competencies regarding exceptional students for teachers and administrators.…

Designed by the Bloomfield Hills (Michigan) multidisciplinary evaluation team, the document suggests procedures and enabling activities to implement the assessment and identification of learning disabled students. Individual sections address five areas (ability, achievement, severe discrepancy, exclusionary clause, and need for special education…

In line with the current trend toward more diagnostic testing in the public schools, the State of Oklahoma has adopted a mandatory screening program for all kindergarten, first, and second grade students. This paper discusses the six-year development, norming, and implementation of the new 58 item, teacher administered and scored screening…

This study measures changes over nearly thirty years in the amount of aid provided by state governments to public libraries and the relationship of these changes to the party in power. Aid is examined at two levels: the first views the party in power at the inception of state aid the second notes the party when a significant increase is made in…

This report describes a project for developing the capacity to provide Wyoming's local education agencies with the means, resources, and processes for effective incremental improvement of their ongoing education efforts, particularly in vocational education, through adoption of an adaptation of the National Institute of Education's…

This guide is intended to aid Maryland educators in using Project LIFE (Library Information Functional Exchange), an information retrieval system designed to strengthen the resource base of the State Media Services Center, to support school library personnel by providing access to pertinent information which is not available in local resources,…

This study of the 18 non-commercial and five 10-watt campus radio stations in the Commonwealth of Virginia is concerned with how these stations operate, how they are controlled and funded, and how they serve the public. A discussion of the role of the state government in tapping the potential of this medium is followed by an examination of the…

This review of the use of the teletypewriter (TTY) by state agencies and institutions in Virginia focuses on two major systems which employ TTY's not interfaced with computers, i.e., the Teletypewriter Exchange Service (TWX) and Teletypewriter for Deaf People (TD). Expenditures and policies are discussed briefly, and a need for improvement is…