An overview of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education March 1979 clinic concerning management practices in teacher education inservice program operation is presented. Two Teacher Corps projects, one urban and one rural in setting, are used as the basis for discussion. Three areas of management practice are considered. The…

The Insurance Services Office (ISO) of New York has filed two new insurance programs which will become effective nationwide on October 1, 1979, and are of special interest to social service agencies involved with transporting clients. The new insurance classification covering social service transportation programs, Liability Insurance for Vehicles…

The Texas plan for computer services provides services to public school districts through a statewide network of 20 regional Education Service Centers (ESC). Each of the three Multi-Regional Processing Centers (MRPCs) operates a large computer facility providing school district services within from three to eight ESC regions; each of the five…

The monograph reviews the first 2 years of a model program to identify gifted-handicapped and gifted-disadvantaged children (2 1/2-6 years old) and to provide them with a preschool program that would offer a balance between stimulating enrichment activities and therapy and remediation in developmental areas, delayed because of specific modality…

The position statement identifies seven problem areas in respect to the mainstreaming movement and gives the position of the National Association of Retarded Citizens on each. The positions focus on the following issues: (1) a definition of mainstreaming, (2) the need to implement mainstreaming in carefully planned stages, (3) the view that…

This document, volume two of a two-volume project report describing a two-year study conducted to develop an individualized curriculum delivery system for competency-based vocational education, contains the following materials related to the project: a dissemination of framework paper; a schedule of conferences and workshops attended by the…

This report provides information to the Department of Education, university trainers, school psychologists, district superintendents and legislators to assist in short- and long-range planning for the efficient delivery of school psychological services. Though specifically designed for use in South Carolina, the model could be used by any state…

The authors discuss four strategies used by different countries to effect mainstreaming. Examined are the Resource Room Model from the United States, the Educational Pairing Model from Denmark, the Consultant Teacher Model from Norway, and the Combined Services Model from Poland. It is held that the ultimate plan for integration of the Handicapped…

The rapid expansion of special education in many parts of the world has brought about much new knowledge and the need for a global information and documentation service. To pull together world-wide information and documentation, UNESCO, the Bureau of International Education, the Council of Europe, the Educational Resources Information Center…

Presented is the final report of the National Center on Educational Media and Materials for the Handicapped, a facility designed to provide a setting where educators of the handicapped and technologists can create, develop, and validate new instructional tools and techniques as part of the instructional technology activities of the Bureau of…

The report to Congress describes the activities of the National Center on Educational Media and Materials for the Handicapped (NCEMMH). Following an introductory section on the history of the center are sections which cover the following program components: the relationship of NCEMMH to Specialized Offices and Areal Learning Resource Centers;…

Volume 1 of this study describes and costs two possible satellite networks which could be used in education in Canada. In order to determine whether these networks were plausible or useful, a letter and a description of the two hypothetical networks (Volume 2) were sent, before the cost study was completed, to all Canadian universities and…

The complex issue of health care delivery is of continuing concern among health care volunteers. Trends in health services that affect the volunteer include those resulting from government or funding policy; changes in the structure of the health professions; increasing consumer interest in health care; and the growing demand for health care…

This paper presents the objectives and results of an experimental program, the Teen Age Medical Service, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The first objective of this program was to experiment with new ways of delivering additional, more extensive, and continuous personal services while maintaining the emergency and episodic services that have…

The Clinton County (New York) Community Development Center (CDC) system was examined to determine its appropriateness for Cooperative Extension Services. Nine active CDC's were investigated via personal interviews and report review to assess CDC scope, activities, audiences, successes, failures, local government support, and potentials.…