A survey of 112 regular classroom teachers (primary-junior high) examined their attitudes toward mainstreaming handicapped students. The majority of teachers had a favorable attitude towards mainstreaming and expressed the need for inservice training and supportive assistance, but stated less desire for participation in the individualized…

The data collected for this study of attitudes of Puerto Rican parents toward bilingual education were obtained from parents whose children attend schools in Chicago's District 6 having bilingual programs. A 39 item attitude inventory was developed and administered to 150 parents: 75 of them parents with children enrolled in a bilingual program,…

In the Distar (Direct Instructional System for Teaching) reading program developed for inner city children, the fundamental assumption of the program's designers is that disadvantaged children lack certain basic language skills, information and behavioral patterns, which prevent them from mastering the reading process. This paper focuses upon the…

Results of a survey, concerned with the use of calculators conducted following a calculator workshop, are reported. Respondents were 400 elementary and secondary teachers and administrators. The report includes recommended uses of calculators by grade level and suggestions for staff development. In general, results indicate teachers and…

A survey of fifty-one elementary school teachers in Chicago regarding their feelings about inservice meetings indicated that: (1) a majority of teachers believed that the objectives of such meetings were not clearly defined; (2) they reported that there was no follow-up or evaluation of the meetings; (3) they generally felt that the meetings were…

The Chicago Board of Education has been attempting to formulate a school desegregation plan to satisfy the U.S. Department of Education (HEW) guidelines for a decade. Public hearings and community participation are to be an integral part of the planning process. To determine the community's attitudes toward school desegregation, over one thousand…

Results of survey of Hispanic Americans' attitudes toward assimilation show that changes in their cultural patterns and movement toward assimilation were minimal. Hispanics generally want to be Americans with political and economic clout but also desire their own cultural identity. (SA)

The author concludes from his survey that inner-city classroom teachers find in-service programs to be irrelevant and useless if they are not based on the needs of the teachers and if teachers have little or no input in their development. (Editor)

This paper presents a study designed to determine the reason first and post-first year students (N=61) chose to leave Chicago Urban University (CUU) prior to graduation. Data were sought from a random sample of 100 students via either a mailed or a telephone survey, with a 61% response rate. The 54-question interview/survey instrument examined the…

The Direct Instructional System for Teaching Arithmetic and Reading (DISTAR) was developed to provide beginning and remedial instruction to disadvantaged children. This paper describes the DISTAR reading program, noting its heavy emphasis on programmed learning and repetitive drill exercises; it then cites the opinions of proponents and opponents…

The availability and decreasing cost of hand held calculators has put pressure on educators to carefully consider the issues related to classroom utilization of these devices. This report focuses on information collected from over 400 participants at a series of National Science Foundation (NSF) funded activities in Chicago and St. Louis from…

This international survey study was the first to examine the Waldorf School movement worldwide and focused on the teaching practices, curricula, educational outcomes, and positive program features of Waldorf schools, as well as problems encountered by Waldorf staff. The role of Rudolf Steiner's philosophy, anthroposophy, and its esoteric aspects…

The Direct Instructional System for Teaching Arithmetic and Reading (DISTAR) was developed to provide beginning and remedial instruction to disadvantaged children in preschool and the primary grades. The method places heavy emphasis on structure, programmed learning, drill, and repetition. To determine teachers' opinions of the DISTAR reading…