The report documents New York City's Office of Educational Assessment's evaluation of the Division of Special Education Public Law 89-313 program for the 1986-87 school year. The program is intended to provided supplemental services suited to the individual needs of participating handicapped students based upon their individual education plans…

The School Morale Inventory was given to 341 junior high school retarded students in special classes (227 in inner city schools and 114 in suburban schools) and 717 nonretarded students in the same schools to compare the school attitudes of retarded and nonretarded students and of inner city and suburban retarded students. (LC)

The author traces the gifted education movement in the United States from the beginnings in the early 1900s of the intelligence testing movement. Societal conceptions about the ignorance of the masses fed the movement. The emergence of gifted child theory is traced to Lewis Terman and Leta Hollingworth. Terman's association of mental ability with…

THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERISTICS OF 262 DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING STUDENTS (GRADES 7 TO 9) IN THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE PRESENTED IN TABLE FORM--(1) THE TEST USED TO SECURE AN INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT AND THE NUMBER OF PUPILS TESTED, (2) THE YEAR THE IQ TEST WAS GIVEN AND THE NUMBER OF PUPILS TESTED, (3) ACHIEVEMENT TESTS USED AND THE NUMBER OF…

Surveyed were the program planning processes employed by 40 New Jersey schools in establishing resource rooms as alternatives to self-contained special classes for handicapped children. Responses to questionnaire items indicated that a majority of the schools surveyed did not formally evaluate their previous self-contained program to determine its…

Described are the philosophy, goals, and objectives of a secondary special education class for educable mentally retarded students. Listed are unit titles and suggested methods and materials for the following eight program objectives: vocational and occupational development, economic independence, interpersonal relationship, health, leisure…

Discrimination is discussed as it applies to the exclusion of racial minorities in classes for children with learning disabilities. The authors contend that this type of racial discrimination is prevalent nationwide (as illustrated by results of a national survey), and that the definition of learning disabilities and how it is operationalized has…

Compared was the effectiveness of punishment and positive reinforcement on the nonattending behaviors and academic achievement of 18 elementary grade children in two special classes for children with social or adjustment problems. During the positive reinforcement condition each student earned a slash mark whenever he was observed attending to…

Presented is the annual (1974) report of a project for the investigation and application of behavior analysis and modification with handicapped children. The program project is designed to assist teachers in the following areas: curriculum for mildly/moderately handicapped children being served in regular classes and for severely handicapped…

A 46-item questionnaire designed to assess teacher attitude toward mainstreaming mildly handicapped students and communication between regular and special education was completed by 230 regular educators and 96 special educators. (Author)

The article examines the omission of special education as a focus of concern in recent national reports and analyses concerned with excellence in education, including negative implications for low-achieving students and those currently receiving special services. The effect of current political and economic variables on educational trends is…

This report discusses the outcomes of a study that investigated whether a self-contained (SC) or pull-out (PO) intervention model was the most effective and most supportive of children's behavioral gains over the course of the entire 1996/1997 year. Data were collected by reviewing the clinical records of children (ages 6-14) who participated in…

In response to a paper by David Sabatino (EC 051 608), the author suggests that the resource room concept is no panacea for the ills of special education and taht many of the services proposed are already being offered by many school systems. (DB)

The history of education of the deaf in Canada since 1831 is examined in some detail. Specific areas of concern include: alternatives to residential schools, oral schools for the deaf, preschool services to parents; continuing education for the deaf, and teacher training, and a Canadian organization of teachers of the deaf. Three distinctive types…