The document presents five issues of the PRISE Reporter, a newsletter of the Pennsylvania Resources and Information Center for Special Education devoted to issues and happenings in the field of special education. Separate issues treat the following disabilities: mental retardation, health impairments/learning disabilities, emotional disturbances,…

The Effective Transition of the Bilingual and Bicultural Student program was funded to offer academic subjects bilingually in grades 9-12, to train staff to carry out program goals, and to provide supportive services to program students. The program offered instruction in English as a Second Language, native language arts, social studies, science,…

The Fort Hamilton High School Greek, Arabic, and Spanish Bilingual Program (GRASP) served 200 Brooklyn, New York, students found to have limited proficiency in English. Students received instruction in English as a Second Language or remedial English, native language arts (except Arabic), and native language instruction in science, social studies,…

Prepared for use by teachers, guidance counselors, administrators, and career education personnel, this source book is designed to stimulate ideas for program planning, to help them become acquainted with the kinds of activities other schools have found to be successful, to provide personnel from other school districts to contact who have worked…

THESE INSTITUTES CONTINUED THE EMPHASIS OF THE 1964 AND 1965 INSTITUTES ON TRAINING TEACHERS TO TEACH FLUID POWER AND EVOLVING EFFECTIVE TECHNIQUES FOR INTRODUCING NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO EDUCATORS. THEY WERE ADMINISTERED BY THE FLUID POWER SOCIETY WHICH, THROUGH ADVISORY COMMITTEES, ESTABLISHED THE CONTENT, PROCEDURES, AND COORDINATION OF THE…

MAJOR EMPHASIS, DURING THE FIRST YEAR OF OPERATION, WAS ON--(1) ACTING AS LIAISON WITH STATE AGENCIES, LABOR GROUPS, AND OTHERS INTERESTED IN RESEARCH IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, (2) WORKING WITH INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN INITIATING AND CONDUCTING RESEARCH RELATED TO VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, (3) ENCOURAGING SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO DESIGN AND…

SEVERAL CASES OF ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT ARE EXAMINED FOR COMMON STRATEGIES APPLIED IN A SELECTED GROUP OF CASES. STUDIES SELECTED MET THE CONCEPT OF ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT AND PROVIDED SUFFICIENT INFORMATION TO INDICATE CASE OUTCOME. AFTER SELECTING THE STUDIES, THE STRATEGY AND ISSUES OF EACH WERE IDENTIFIED, AND COMPARISONS WERE MADE OF…

A PLANNED APPROACH TO EDUCATIONAL CHANGE FOCUSES UPON THE INTERNAL FUNCTIONING OF THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. RESEARCH GENERALIZATIONS INDICATING CONDITIONS WHICH INFLUENCE LEARNING ARE CITED AS A BASIS FOR A CONCEPTUAL MODEL. FROM THIS MODEL, SOME ORGANIZATIONAL FUNCTIONS WHICH NEED TO BE DEVELOPED WITHIN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM ARE DERIVED. FIVE LEVELS OF…

THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SIX DIFFERENT COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMS FOR STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS WERE IDENTIFIED TO ASSESS THEIR COMMON FEATURES, INNOVATIONS, AND SUCCESSFUL PRACTICES. THESE PROGRAMS WERE OF A MULTI-OCCUPATIONAL NATURE, DESIGNED TO MEET THE NEEDS OF SLOW LEARNERS. DATA WERE SECURED BY MEANS OF INTERVIEWS WITH KEY PERSONNEL,…

Designed for educators actively involved with the teaching of writing, this summary report contains an overview of the background, major findings, and recommendations of the 1979 Manitoba (Canada) Writing Assessment Program. Various sections of the report provide the following information: (1) highlights of the general report of the program; (2)…

The 3R program at Highland Park Junior High School (St. Paul, Minnesota) serves seventh to ninth grade students with maladaptive behavior from 1 to 3 hours daily with the purpose of facilitating eventual return to all or nearly all regular classes. Student time in the classroom is totally individualized. The treatment plan involves a behavior…

This introduction to the Reading Instruction and Pupil Personnel Services (RIPPS) reading program briefly describes the program, which treats reading difficulties as a possible causal factor in a child's lack of progress in school, or as a symptom of other social, emotional, or physical problems that adversely affect the child. The introduction…

The Officer Friendly program, sponsored by the Sears-Roebuck Foundation, is designed to humanize children's perceptions of police officers and their work, improve rapport between children and police, increase awareness of safety and civic responsibility, and reduce crime involving children. The program involves visits by police officers to school…

This paper describes a research and development center's project to design procedures for helping students both to develop and to apply effective behaviors for understanding text. The project's developmental efforts are summarized and promising directions for future work are examined. Specifically, the paper (1) clarifies the goals of the project,…

The purpose of this paper is to summarize for educational practitioners the progress made in identifying existing reading and mathematics remediation programs that might be appropriate for use in Kentucky schools. The information provided includes: (1) a description of the process used to obtain information about remediation programs currently in…