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Download full textCaplan, Elizabeth, Ed.; Blankenship, Kelly, Ed.; McManus, Marilyn, Ed. – Focal Point, 1998
This bulletin focuses on family participation in mental health policymaking and highlights state efforts to increase family involvement. Articles include: (1) "Promoting Family Member Involvement in Children's Mental Health Policy Making Bodies," which describes how different states are promoting family member involvement in various statutory and…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Children, Emotional Disturbances, Family Involvement
Focal Point, 1992
This newsletter issue focuses on the theme of fostering collaboration between parents and professionals in meeting the mental health needs of children. Structured group interviews (focus groups) were held with both parents and professionals who have been members of decision making boards and committees. Interview excerpts illustrate findings that…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Child Advocacy, Cooperation, Decision Making
Rocha, Ramon M., Ed. – Perceptions, 1988
This special journal section contains five major articles concerned with the education of children with disabilities, especially with emotional or behavioral disorders. The lead article by Ramon M. Rocha and Susan McCue, discusses the education of emotionally disturbed (ED) students in New York State as directed by the Commissioner of Education's…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Cultural Differences, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Bain, Helen Pate; Jacobs, Roseanne – Streamlined Seminar, 1990
The impact of class size reduction at the early levels on student achievement in various states is discussed in this report. The Tennessee Student Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) study, a statewide longitudinal evaluation of the effects of class size on student achievement and development in primary grades K-3, analyzed demographic and basic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Mitchell, George A. – Wisconsin Policy Research Institute Report, 1992
The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) provides tax support for children from low-income families to attend private schools. It is administered by the Wisconsin State Department of Public Instruction, although lack of administrative support for the program has been apparent. In addition, the Superintendent of Public Instruction has expressed…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment
Nathanson, Jeanne H., Ed. – OSERS News in Print, 1993
This journal issue focuses on cooperative partnership programs for the improvement of educational services to students with disabilities. The eight articles are: (1) "Partner-Based Prelinguistic Intervention: A Preliminary Report" by M. Jeanne Wilcox (which found the intervention procedures had a strong effect on mother-child dyads); (2)…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Ancillary School Services, Cooperative Programs, Disabilities
Douglas, Dorothy, Ed. – Alaska's Children, 1996
These quarterly reports for 1996 of the Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs provides information on the activities of the Alaska Head Start State Collaboration Project and other Head Start activities, as well as legal and policy changes affecting the education of young children in Alaska. The spring 1996 issue includes articles on…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Child Advocacy, Childhood Needs, Community Services
