Reports the results of a project to study methods of providing access to community college education for Maryland's deaf citizens. (DC)

The statewide (Oregon) survey of special education administrators, high school special education teachers, and parents of mildly disabled high school students investigated four areas of special education services: focus/content, discrepancies between availability and utilization, barriers to mainstreaming, and conditions required for improvement.…

A survey of counseling services in California programs for the deaf indicated a continuing need to expand school counseling programs and community mental health resources. Survey results are compared with a similar study conducted 10 years earlier, and seven new recommendations are made. Thirty-eight existing programs in California are listed.…

Information on GSL defaults in five states is reviewed: California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Default rates are defined and levels of default are examined using a variety of analytical methods. (Author/MLW)

Reviews survey which was conducted in 1982 to determine the need of Florida businesses for bilingual personnel and foreign language and cross-cultural training. Florida's economic growth related to international business is described, its implications for education and training are discussed, and results of the survey are analyzed. (LRW)

Presents results from a North Carolina survey on how principals view themselves and other principals. The survey addressed four questions: (1) the individual's actual leadership role, (2) the leadership role they would like to have, (3) the leadership roles assumed by three principals they know best, and (4) the leadership role played by most…

Provides results from a 1983 survey of secondary mathematics education in Wisconsin. Questions refer to graduation requirements, curriculum topics, nature of geometry classes, metric system, computers, and calculators. Items also collected data on district mathematics committees, policies, competency exams, computer access, and the nature of…

Presents results of a survey of course withdrawal policies at two-year colleges in Iowa, focusing on deadlines, grades given for dropped courses, drop initiation procedures, and recent policy changes. Finds that most schools permit students to drop classes late in the term with a nonpunitive grade. Discusses practical implications. (DMM)

The study found that Hispanic students were overrepresented in approximately one fourth of the California districts in mental retardation (MR), speech impairment, and specific learning disability (SLD) classes. Black students were overrepresented in MR and speech programs in one fourth of the districts and in SLD programs in two-thirds of the…

A survey of South Carolina participants in Small Business Innovative Research programs, conducted to evaluate previous assumptions about research success factors, found that success hinged on the principal investigator's background, the presence of university connections for the project, and the project's ability to respond to the agency's stated…

Describes responses of 19 Louisiana academic libraries to questionnaire designed to determine scope and conduct of academic online searching search services. Telecommunications networks, terminals, patrons, library search procedures, methods of charging fees, special features, selective dissemination of information, computer searching by…

Quebec university professors' salaries since 1972 are examined, and mean salaries are used to position them in the province-wide distribution of household private income. Their position in the top groups of income, dating back to at least 1973, is qualified and discussed. (MSE)

A follow-up survey of 113 Washington State dental practices participating in a continuing education workshop on efficient use of auxiliaries revealed that positive results of the training depended on the practice implementing the goals for organizational change it had set, and that the results take time to become apparent. (MSE)

A statewide survey of operative dentistry in North Carolina was conducted to provide an update of operative dentistry practice and to assist the operative department at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry in making informed curricular decisions. The results of the survey are discussed. (Author/MLW)

Responses of 352 principals surveyed on topics including courses taken by graduates by class ranking and anticipated outcomes of increased graduation requirements revealed a general concern that recommendations similar to those of "A Nation at Risk" might serve college-bound students at the expense of the less able. (MJL)