No significant difference is found between the verbal interaction of White high school teachers with Black and White students in desegregated classrooms. (Author)

Outlines a four-stage paradigm for designing communicative reading instruction in a college classroom containing several primary language groups. Develops a sample lesson and discusses the advantages of the paradigm. (FL)

This article describes three types of simulation games that might be of use in selling teachers on the idea of mainstreaming'' mildly handicapped children (incorporating them) in regular classes. (JA)

Through a resource room structure, special education students can be placed in regular classrooms with supportive classroom help given at specific periods during the day. (NQ)

Reports on an pre/post testing of the attitudinal and sociometric patterns of adolescents, and centers on any changes subsequent to the Schools Council (England)-Nuffield Humanities Curriculum Project, which explored the problems of teaching controversial social and ethical issues to adolescents aged 14 to 16. (RJ)

The child's performance in school has to do with his own family background, essentially the educational characteristics of that background. (Author)

The Laboratory School-Teacher Education Module, Western Regional School Desegregation Project of the University of California at Riverside was designed to help a select group of teachers find some of the answers in solving problems of school desegregation. (SB)

Focuses on expanding childhood programs to accommodate deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing children: in-service training; the addition of staff who can communicate with the deaf and hard-of-hearing children; and with physical changes. Modifications to aspects of the environment are discussed. (LZ)

In this speech, testing experts or clinical psychologists called to give evidence in court cases on segregation either in the school or the classroom are provided with guidelines in preparing their case in document form with sources ready at hand. It is suggested that as much information as possible be available to the lawyer for whom the…

Determining whether statistically significant differences occur in the measured achievement of a group of 608 white pupils, 127 Lumbee Indian pupils, and 680 black pupils--from a newly racially integrated North Carolina school system--this study analyzed academic performance with respect to each student ethnic group, each teacher ethnic group, and…

This paper provides a view of the minority administrator's role in desegregated school systems over the past twenty years. It presents a prototypical example of how basically egalitarian principles associated with school desegregation have been misrepresented in practice. A challenge to the system is proposed using coalitions and political power…

Without a fundamental change in the status of practice from curriculum consumer to curriculum designer, there can be no expectation or hope that mainstreaming, multicultural education, desegregation, and sex-integrated learning will become actualized through the physical education curriculum. (Author)

Introduces a journal issue that is intended to regenerate research on minorities in elementary schools and focus on important questions that have been underexplored. Discusses declines in research on minorities, and the problems and possible directions of new research.(SKC)

By establishing a learning resources center'' for children with special education problems, Bellwood Avenue School in Linwood, New Jersey, has begun the slow process of bringing these youngsters back into society, teaching them to operate and deal with a society that helped to create their problems. The attempt is to substantiate the notion that…