Provides information about the existence, purposes, and design of state mandated reading assessment programs. (MKM)

Summarizes and discusses PL 94-142, the federal Education of All Handicapped Children Act, and compares it with North Carolina's Equal Educational Opportunities Act. Also comments on Sec. 504 of the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and other relevant North Carolina legislation. (JG)

This article is an account of the first year of implementation of Chapter 220 of the State statute, which provides financial aid to encourage the transfer of students between schools and school districts for racial and cultural integration. (Author/AM)

As more states move to legislate minimal graduation requirements, questions arise about who will set the standards for academic achievement and what effect such legislation will have on students. (JD)

Discusses the costs of developing, administering, and regulating state competency tests as well as of the compensatory programs that the tests will make necessary, and then suggests five ways of reducing these costs. (IRT)

Updates a July 1977 article on federal and state laws affecting the education of handicapped children, focusing specifically on the 1977 amendments to North Carolina's special education laws. (JG)

Argues that statutes codifying the curriculum for public schools represent a distillation and practical expression of elements of American culture. Based on a comparative analysis of state legislation regulating school curriculum, concludes that such statutes define a sort of "civil religion" in the United States. (Author/JG)

Based on the Florida experience, one should expect, among other things, new problems for minority students, lawsuits against the tests, calls for tests of teachers, and scapegoating and blaming. (Author/IRT)

Discusses the problems facing school district curriculum leaders as a result of increasingly frequent legislative mandates affecting the schools and their curriculum. (JG)

The yardstick for determining the constitutionality of state aid to parochial schools is now in three questions: Does the law in question meet a valid secular purpose? Does the law either advance or inhibit religion? Does the law create an excessive governmental entanglement with religion? (Author/IRT)

Critics of standardized tests support new legislation to provide breakdowns of test results by sex, race, and ethnic group, confident they will find evidence of bias. (MSE)

Analyzes the liability insurance program for schools. High costs and limited number of insurers have dramatically affected school liability insurance coverage. (MD)

Discusses the six-step process the Des Moines Area Community College (Iowa) uses to design and deliver customized training for new and expanding businesses. Also discusses the New Jobs Training Act that provided tax incentives to those businesses and granted exclusive rights to the state's community colleges to contract for training with them.…