This guide provides an approach to assist public schools and adult service agencies in designing programs that will maximize the ability of severely disabled students to function in non-sheltered vocational environments. The guide is composed of a list of questions to be used in a self-evaluation process; the questions concern needs assessment,…

This curriculum and teaching guide outlines the ISTEP (Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress) 1988 Summer Remediation Program in reading, language, and mathematics provided for students in grades 1, 2, 3, and 6 who did not pass the minimum state standards for promotion to the next grade level based on the results of the ISTEP test.…

An expanded Remediation Assistance Program designed to serve students with basic skills deficiencies in reading, mathematics, and language at grades 2-9 was funded by the 1984 Washington State Legislature. During the 1985-86 school year, programs were operated in 271 of the state's 298 school districts and served over 28,000 students. A majority…

This project was designed to give children opportunities to discover and to investigate plants, animals, and ecological relationships in their own neighborhoods. Through hands-on, natural science investigations, children have opportunities to find and observe a variety of plants and animals, look at them closely, sort them to analyze their…

The history of schooling is a mix of constancy and change in policies, organizational structures, school practices, and classroom pedagogy. Over the last century and a half, well-intentioned and serious reformers, using Federal, state, and local policies, tirelessly and repeatedly tried to improve schooling. Classroom and school practices such as…

A survey of colleges was conducted to identify those colleges that offer programs for the learning disabled, and the survey results are compiled in this directory of 83 programs. Each program description includes the college's name, address, and telephone number; program title; fees charged to the student for special services; name, title, and…

Because of a consistently high failure rate of freshmen in a required introductory biology course, numerous strategies to improve the success rate of students without compromising academic standards were explored. The major underlying cause of lack of success was perceived to be the level of thinking skills possessed by the incoming freshman. The…

Sophisticated database management systems (DBMS) for microcomputers are becoming increasingly easy to use, allowing small school districts to develop their own autonomous databases for tracking enrollment and student progress in special education. DBMS applications can be designed for maintenance by district personnel with little technical…

Because of the higher-than-average risk of hypertension, obesity, and diabetes among Hispanics, researchers selected these three health problems as the focus of a "radio novela" intended to increase the health knowledge and awareness of a Hispanic target audience and to stimulate their response to the problems. The replicable health…

This guide is designed to help employers plan work force reductions. It emphasizes positive collaboration with workers and the community to find new jobs for workers and maintain morale and productivity in the plant. The guide is divided into five chapters. The first chapter acquaints the reader with some of the benefits of work force reduction…

Based on the results of informal surveys conducted by each of four Technical Assistance Centers and several surveys and studies addressing the availability and use of computers and microcomputers in education, this paper examines the accessibility of computer technology to disadvantaged students in Chapter 1-assisted instructional programs. A…

A project was conducted to develop a model for evaluating placement testing in the North Carolina System of Community Colleges. Researchers at Central Piedmont Community College conducted a longitudinal study of students' progress through the college curriculum as it related to placement test scores. The following numbers of students comprised the…

Proceedings of the 1983 annual meeting of the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) in the United States are presented. Included are reports of concurrent sessions, papers, and information on the Council's business meeting. Topics of concurrent sessions include: the federal legislative process, graduate school databases, the scholar-computer…

The format and mode of operation of a special commission appointed by the Maryland legislature to examine the teaching of values in elementary and secondary public schools are presented. The Commission surveyed and evaluated values education programs, interviewed educators, and held meetings with citizens throughout the state. Consensus was…

This report contains a condensation and highlights of public hearings held by the Illinois State Advisory Council on Adult, Vocational and Technical Education (SACVE) and the Illinois Employment and Training Council (IETC) on the subject of correctional education in the state. During the hearings on this topic, 100 witnesses testified. The report…