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Postma, Michael; Peters, Daniel; Gilman, Barbara; Kearney, Kathi – Parenting for High Potential, 2011
Education has seen its share of trends and movements that either help or hinder the optimal development of the gifted child. In 2001, Congress passed No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in a concerted effort to reach children who were not meeting minimal standardized goals of achievement. Response to Intervention (RtI) is yet another approach to ensure…
Descriptors: Intervention, Academically Gifted, Federal Legislation, Teaching Methods
Connor, Frances P. – Exceptional Education Quarterly, 1983
The Learning Disabilities Institute at Teachers College, Columbia University, was organized as five task forces, conducting research in specific areas: memory and study skills, problems in learning basic skills (arithmetic, reading, and spelling, and reading comprehension, (from the perspectives of interaction of text and reader and of semantics…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
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Kreis, Max – American Annals of the Deaf, 1979
Originally part of a symposium on educational media for the deaf, the article describes Project Video Language, a videotaped instructional program for hearing-impaired kindergarten through sixth-grade children. Evaluation of the program showed that the packets are effective and enable teachers to move more rapidly through material. Additionally,…
Descriptors: Conferences, Deafness, Educational Media, Educational Technology
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Morocco, Catherine Cobb – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2001
This article presents the mission and conceptual framework of the REACH Institute, which is engaged in a five-year program of research on teaching for understanding with students with disabilities. It describes several common features of the institute research stands in social studies, language arts, science, and mathematics, and emerging themes.…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Academic Standards, Curriculum Design, Disabilities