As part of an ongoing effort to understand the nature of student performance and persistence at Southwestern College (SC), a study was conducted in fall 1976 to determine the effect of reading ability on student course performance. An analysis of the Nelson-Denny Reading Test (NDRT) scores of 4,610 students revealed that, on an average, students…

Covered in an interview with a parent, an administrator, and a policy specialist are issues related to due process procedures for handicapped children. (CL)

The authors describe the Curricular-Career Information Service (CCIS), which is an outreach, self-help, multimedia-based and preprofessional-staffed career guidance service. CCIS consists of five instructional modules which relate to the following student problems: uncertainty about major, relationship of major to jobs, finding a job and…

Summarized were results of an analysis of placement factors with 7,427 children enrolled in primary and intermediate classes for the educable mentally retarded in Virginia during 1971-72. (DB)

Noting that the technical service rendered by the national testing agencies may be an undesirable tradeoff for the active involvement of admissions workers in admissions research, the author suggests that the use of decision theory, quasi-actuarial assessment, quasi-experimental design, and program evaluation strategies would place admissions…

The author summarizes those federal court cases that offer the most far reaching precedents concerning the rights of children with disabilities to receive educational services, and provides a case example where parents of deaf children sought legal action to establish the rights of their children to education in local programs. (Author/LS)

Psychoanalytic theory is not sufficient for establishing guidelines for child placement. As a case in point, the authors test the assumptions in the issues of continuity and multiple parenting against available empirical evidence. (Author)

The industrial arts and home maintenance curricula for TMH students are structured to train and prepare them for work, in a program for children 5 to 21. The basic unit, presented monthly by the academic classroom teacher, is daily reinforced by all special areas. Task analysis unifies teaching and evaluation. (AJ)

In 1968, Hallmark Cards, Inc. established a training facility in Kansas City to provide job training for people denied jobs because of inexperience, police records, physical handicaps, skin color, or lack of education. Their successful program is based on hiring and then providing on-the-job training. (Author/EA)

The selection scales reported in this article are aimed not so much at "selecting students out" as making sure they get into the right vocational programs. The authors discuss in detail the construction of criterion sub-scales and illustrate with examples. The instrument is being tested in three Ohio schools. (Author)

An examination of state laws and regulations reveals confusion with regard to the classification of exceptional children, particularly in the structuring of delivery systems for language, speech, and hearing services. (LH)

The study evaluated the accuracy of Class.LD2, a computerized expert system for classifying learning disabled (LD) students. Of 264 student files, 78 files were chosen based on disagreement between multidisciplinary team and Class.LD2 decisions regarding eligibility for LD placement. These 78 cases were evaluated by three individuals expert in LD…

This handbook for foster parents in Alaska provides a reference guide to foster care policies and procedures. Sections of the handbook provide information on: (1) placement and separation; (2) emergencies; (3) daily living; (4) medical care; (5) discipline; (6) financial matters; (7) transportation; (8) legal issues; and (9) various matters of…

This booklet provides a statement of the position of two collaborating associations on education appropriate for kindergarten children. Contents focus on: (1) aspects of children's growth and physical, intellectual, emotional, and social development; (2) ways in which young children learn; and (3) curriculum, including language arts, reading,…

A study examined the circumstances underlying the school-to-work transition problems of disadvantaged youth and strategies that school systems in Detroit, Pensacola (Florida), New Castle (Indiana), and Pittsburgh have adopted to address these problems. Among the problems studied were lack of information about jobs and careers, too few role models…