The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide research project involving schools and students in over 79 countries. It is run by the OECD [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development], takes place every three years, and is designed to examine how 15-year-olds can apply what they have learned in school to real…

Noting that reading specialists are transforming themselves from remedial reading tutors into schoolwide resource specialists, this guidebook recognizes the need to deal with both process and content within this challenging role. Chapters in the book are: (1) Getting Started; (2) Developing the School Program from September to June: (3) Developing…

The multi-faceted role of the advisor in an open education setting is defined in this paper. Background information on the development of the open corridor approach to elementary education (created in America by Lillian Weber), the subsequent emergence of the teacher support position of advisor and the resulting advisor training program is…

The volume presents an overview of the secondary Resource Specialist Program for mildly and moderately handicapped students in California and reviews the most promising aspects of the program, directions in which the program appears to be headed, and some ideas on facilitating program growth and change. Included are five chapters with the…

This part of the School Management Handbook provides elementary school administrators with an overview of some of the special education regulations mandated in Public Law 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Section 1 of the document defines screening and evaluation procedures for identifying handicapping conditions of children…

This guide is organized into three parts. Parts A and B contain bibliographic citations and brief annotations; Part C is an alphabetical listing of all references. Topics included in Part A are: the rationale and history of experiential learning, types of programs, program planning and implementation, program evaluation and quality assurance,…

These eighteen articles concern approaches for dealing with the handicapped student in vocational education. The first article addresses the diversity of teaching approaches. The others focus on (1) team teaching (and cooperation with other subject area teachers); (2) the SERVE (Special Education Rehabilitation Vocational Education) Center…

The National Education Association's 1980 survey of school programs and practices involved sending questionnaires to 805 representative school systems serving 300 or more students. Exactly 508 usable questionnaires were returned. Thirteen topical areas were explored: (1) increases and decreases in student enrollment and numbers of teachers; (2)…