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The Basic Competencies Movement: Implications for Mainstreaming.
Hull, Marc E.; And Others – Education Unlimited, 1979
The author considers the implications of minimum competency requirements for handicapped students, teachers of the handicapped, and mainstreaming. (SBH)
Descriptors: Handicapped Children, Legal Problems, Mainstreaming, Minimum Competency Testing
Minimal Competency Testing, The Professionals, the Handicapped, and the Law.
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Conver, Michael E. – Illinois School Research and Development, 1982
Examines three forces affecting the minimum competency testing movement: the reluctance of professionals to accept it, court cases, and the question of how it should be applied to the handicapped student. (FL)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Mainstreaming, Minimum Competency Testing
Mainstreaming News: Competency Testing and the Handicapped.
Swartz, Stanley L. – Curriculum Review, 1979
Presented is a statement developed by the Illinois Council for Exceptional Children on how the special child will be affected by competency testing. Possible objections to minimum competency testing for the handicapped are discussed, as is the meaning of a high school diploma today. (KC)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Mainstreaming, Minimum Competency Testing
Mainstreaming, Minimum Competency Testing, and the Minority Student.
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Trent, Cathy C.; Hinton, Milton W. – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1984
Mainstreaming has resulted in the placement of large numbers of mildly mentally retarded students (amongst whom minorities are overrepresented) in regular classrooms, with little planned effort to meet their special needs. These students are now exposed to minimum competency testing, with its potential for reestablishing racially segregated…
Descriptors: Black Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Mainstreaming, Mexican Americans