Brief recommendations and resources for accommodating handicapped students in community colleges are offered. Recommendations are presented for creating an advisory board, providing support services, accommodating handicapped students in existing programs, and identifying handicapped students. Resources which are described include books and…

This is a resource directory for professionals who work with young adolescents (10- to 15-year-olds). It is a multidisciplinary list of organizations, publications, and readings to help professionals in their research and practice. Although the directory is not meant to be all-inclusive, an attempt has been made to include the major networks,…

This handbook contains an annotated list of resources available from the Sex Equity project of the Idaho State Department of Education. The resources listed include materials dealing with career education, counseling, educational equity, employment, federal anti-discrimination laws, school subjects, non-sexist activities, athletics, sexism, and…

This guide provides procedures and supporting materials for conducting a training workshop on sex equity which is intended to expand awareness and knowledge of the effects of sexism and to increase sex-affirmative behavior in the educational environment. Divided into nine sessions, the workshop is targeted at students in junior and senior high…

Supplemental instructional and reading materials for secondary level Latin instruction are classified, annotated, and evaluated. Most are produced by individual instructors for their own use and published in newsletters, classical journals, or conference reports. Categories of materials include: narrative texts, poetic texts, dialogues and dramas,…

Presenting concepts generally applicable only to small rural regions or to local economies, this publication explains multipliers, shows how they are used in calculating impacts, and provides some criteria for determining whether a given multiplier can be used in a specific situation. Following a discussion of aggregate multipliers, which lump…

The handbook provides Tucson (Arizona) parents of students with disabilities information to aid the transition from the high school environment to the community environment. The guide provides information on the vocational, academic, financial, transportation, counseling and recreation/leisure services available in the Tucson area. After an…

In January 1988 the Committee on Pre-College Philosophy of the American Philosophical Association undertook a survey of the state of the art of critical thinking (CT) assessment. Using Delphi research methodology, a panel of 60 scholars and teachers from throughout the United States and Canada, with backgrounds in Philosophy, Psychology,…

This handbook is divided into two parts. Part 1 focuses on being a teaching assistant and ideas for teaching. Sections of this part cover: (1) university policies applicable to teaching assistants and behavior guidelines; (2) teaching tips; (3) lecturing techniques; (4) discussion and laboratory sections; (5) using questions; (6) demonstrations;…

This report elaborates on nonnumerical summaries of quantitative data on practices applied to instructional materials by the staff members of 17 service agencies of the Education Department of Tasmania, Australia. The descriptions presented are based on interviews and observations made during a survey conducted between October 1987 and February…

This directory contains information on over 300 American Indian child welfare programs, resources, curriculums, publications, and funding sources. The section on alcohol and substance abuse features 12 prevention and treatment programs and 9 elementary and secondary school prevention curriculums, as well as related resources, publications, videos,…

Designed to help elementary school students understand sex role stereotyping, these classroom activities have been compiled from sex equity projects at local, state, and national levels. The selection criteria included: (1) appeal to elementary students; (2) the inclusion of mathematics or language arts exercises within an activity; and (3)…

Presented in this document are a student's study guide and an accompanying teacher's manual. The purpose of the study guide is to present information on (1) what the U.S. Constitution means, (2) how the U.S. government is organized, (3) why the Constitution is a living document, and (4) why the Constitution is a source of pride for U.S. citizens.…

Designed to appeal to students who want a short but up-to-date overview, researchers who are interested in a critical appraisal, and consumers who would like to know what leaders in the field think, this collection of articles highlights the changes that have occurred in readability research from the past to the present and makes predictions about…

During the post-war period of the 1940s and early 1950s, there was a surge in consumer demand for goods and services in the United States and throughout the world. As a result, an evolution of U.S. companies into international corporations occurred. This teaching unit, one in a series of eight, reviews the international operations of the Procter…