Present federal methods of monitoring the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-142) only verify compliance with the law. They do not evaluate the law's effectiveness in improving disabled children's functional abilities. A number of educational parameters and outcomes can be used to measure PL 94-142's efficacy. (RW)

Many are terribly frustrated in their efforts to implement the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (Public Law 94-142). Perhaps the most anxiety-producing letters of the alphabet for educators are IEP, Individual Education Program. Such programs are mandated for all handicapped students, but if they cannot be developed in the…

In order to determine how vocational education programs should be evaluated, it is first necessary to define vocational education, to describe how vocational education programs are now being evaluated, to find out how other federal education programs are evaluated, and to suggest what criteria might reasonably be set out in future federal…