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Download full textOsborn, Julia – Youth Mental Health Update, 1996
This single-article issue discusses the identification and educational needs of gifted children. Giftedness is defined and a suggested set of levels of intellectual giftedness based on IQ scores is included. The special needs of gifted children are briefly reviewed, including: the need for a challenging education, the need for "true peers" that…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Crocker, Elvira Valenzuela – Peer Report, 1982
Hispanic women earn less, own fewer businesses, and are less represented in politics than almost any other population segment, and their history of low educational attainment is a key factor for each of these realities. In 1981, while 69% of the total population completed four or more years of high school, only 42% of the Hispanic females reached…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Educational Attainment, Educational Opportunities, Females
Mitchell, Eugene E., Ed. – COED Transactions, 1980
Summarized are the results of a survey conducted at Purdue University of nine different engineering schools regarding the programming languages and expertise needed by their undergraduates. (CS)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Engineering, Engineering Education
Weiner, Carolyn Ausberger – Syndactics Bulletin, 1992
This document contains issues of the "Syndactics Bulletin" published between 1989 and 1991. Volume 6 includes 9 issues provided between January and December of 1989; volume 7 includes 9 issues produced between January and December of 1990; and volume 8 includes the only 5 issues of the Bulletin published in 1991. Each four-page bulletin…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Education, High Risk Students, Language Arts
Bradley, Rose M. – Independent National Rural Project Newsletter, 1983
A strategy for managing an effective special services program in a small, rural school (Wilson Creek, Washington) is described. The approach is built upon the nucleus of a full time special education teacher who coordinates schoolwide services. Responsibilities of this position include assisting teaching staff in mainstreaming special education…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Models, Rural Education, Rural Schools
Cohen, LeoNora M.; And Others – OSSC Bulletin, 1990
The state of Oregon has mandated special educational programming or services for K-12 gifted and talented children to begin by the 1991-92 school year. Because financial support is lacking, most instruction of gifted and talented students will occur within regular classrooms. This monograph addresses the problem of providing appropriate…
Descriptors: Financial Problems, Gifted, Kindergarten, Mainstreaming
Rosen, Louis – Streamlined Seminar, 1999
Civics is a subject usually taught only in grades 4, 8, and 12. This article supports the teaching of civics in every grade, every day. The article offers a list of topics for an elementary school civics and government curriculum and suggests an informal elementary school civics curriculum consisting of activities during the school day that…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Civics, Curriculum Enrichment
Stormont, Melissa; Espinosa, Linda; Knipping, Nancy; McCathren, Rebecca – Early Childhood Research and Practice: An Internet Journal on the Development, Care, and Education of Young Children., 2003
This article provides early elementary school teachers with specific strategies to support the diverse needs of children who are vulnerable for failure in school. Children who are vulnerable include those who have an increased risk for failure because of specific characteristics that have been found to predict problems in school, such as poverty.…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Classroom Techniques, Elementary School Teachers, High Risk Students
Goodman, Laura, Ed. – Understanding Our Gifted, 1998
This document consists of the four quarterly issues of the journal "Understanding Our gifted" published during 1998. Each issue of the journal generally has a single theme in the education of gifted and talented children around which all the articles are focused. The themes of these four issues are, respectively, "Educational…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Intelligence
Silverman, Linda Kreger, Ed. – Understanding Our Gifted, 1993
This theme issue on the role of parents in the education of their gifted children contains two feature articles. "'Pushy and Domineering': A Stigma Placed on Parents of Gifted Children," by Lynn C. Cole and Roxana M. DellaVecchia, examines how parents are perceived as "pushy and domineering" when they strongly advocate for appropriate education…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Parent Participation
Willis, Scott – ASCD Curriculum Update, 1994
This newsletter theme issue focuses on issues in including students with disabilities in regular education. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act calls for students to be placed in the least restrictive environment, which is presumed by some educators to be the regular classroom. The drawbacks of separate programs are not felt to be…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Change, Educational Methods, Elementary Secondary Education
Whelley, Pete; Cash, Gene; Bryson, Dixie – Here's How, 2002
The U.S. Surgeon General's 2000 Report on Children's Mental Health estimates that one in five children and adolescents will experience a significant mental-health problem during their school years. While the family is the primary source of support for a child's mental health, the increased stress and fracturing of today's life make it imperative…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Elementary Secondary Education, Mental Disorders, Mental Health
Strahm, Sharon, Ed. – Econ Ed & the Fed, 2001
This Fall 2001-Spring 2002 newsletter provides resources and information to educators, particularly economics, history, social studies, and business educators, throughout the western district of the Federal Reserve System. The goal of the newsletter is to highlight new Federal Reserve teaching materials and resources, including Web sites,…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Economics, Economics Education
Simpson, Mary; Ure, Jenny – 1994
Differentiation practices are defined by the Scottish Office Education Department as the identification of, and effective provision for, a range of abilities in one classroom, such that pupils in a particular class need not study the same things at the same pace and in the same way at all times. This issue of the "Interchange" describes…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Individualized Instruction
Illovsky, Michael E., Ed. – IACD Quarterly, 1990
This document consists of the four issues of the "IACD Quarterly" published in 1990. Articles in this volume include: (1) "A Comprehensive Program for Reducing School Anxieties in College Students" (David Ross); (2) "Issues in Child Custody Determination in Illinois" (Amy Jo Buwick); (3) "Finding Meaning in the Here and Now Through Gestalt Therapy…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Students, Anxiety, Burnout
