The 2004-2005 school year was the third year that states were required to report on the performance of students with disabilities on standards-based assessments, and the last year before states were required to test in all grades 3 through 8, and once between grades 10 and 12. This report marks the ninth in a line of National Center on Educational…

The Appalachian Consortium was evaluated as an organization for the dissemination of educational information regarding programs for the early identification of preschool handicapped children. Chapter I provides a historical overview and discusses the Consortium's independence from the Appalachian Educational Laboratory. The chapter also indicates…

Initiated in 1971, this early education program for children of migrant farm workers uses the adult members of the child's extended family as paraprofessional teachers who have full responsibility for teaching the child. Professional teachers, employed to "back up" the parent teacher, help with training, curriculum planning, securing…

Since 1966, more than 1,900 projects have been funded by the 1965 Title I Elementary and Secondary Education Act Migrant Amendment and the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act for migrant children's problems of educational continuity, health, and other needed services. This paper describes various exemplary programs selected for comprehensiveness of…

The first section of this report describes the objectives, project organization, and program of the Appalachian Education Satellite Project. The second section describes the resource coordinating centers and their seven missions: reading course development, career education course development for K-6 and 7-12, four-channel audio program…