Increased interest in research into school level environment has not been extended to special education in the United Kingdom, but J. E. Adams (1998) found evidence that differences in pedagogic practice between schools for children with moderate learning disability (MLD) and severe learning disability (SLD) were in part attributable to school…

Questions educational relevance of direct measures of learning such as the Learning Potential Assessment Device, assessment of biomedical factors, and adaptative behavior measures. Notes increased discrepancies between EMR and average students in high school. Suggests a generic classification for the mildly handicapped and the combining of groups…

Three years of evaluation activities were conducted by the Institute for Developmental Studies (IDS) at New York University for the 1973-1976 program years of Project Mainstream, a Title III, ESEA project in New York's Lower Hudson Region. This work was carried out with the cooperation and support of the Yonkers, New York school system. Objectives…