Advocates using a linguistic approach to supplement teaching social studies vocabulary. Highlights advantages of teaching vocabulary through etymological analysis, including greater student interest, more precise definitions, and the approach's transferability. Disadvantages include the complexity of some prefix meanings. Concludes that this…

A 5-second constant time delay procedure was used to teach 10 word definitions to 3 fifth grade students with mild learning handicaps. All students learned the definitions in 8 to 9 sessions with students maintaining correct responding at 6, 10, and 14 weeks after training. Generalization was also observed. (Author/DB)

The article critiques interpretations purporting to distinguish between serious emotional disturbance (SED) and social maladjustment (which is excluded from the federal SED definition). An interpretation of social maladjustment based on social deviance is proposed to more clearly determine eligibility for services under provisions for the…

Criticizes broad definition of "rural" in empirical analysis and inadequate theorizing the differentiation among rural areas. Suggests deeper evaluation of how dissimilar social contexts result in similar outcomes. Examines how different environments can share structural conditions of capital accumulation, state, and society. Argues against…

Linnakyla examines definitions of literacy as an object of individual and social development and compares concepts of knowledge and literacy. Gronholm advocates the effectiveness of parents reading aloud to their children for 15 minutes per day in the improvement of children's reading skills. (SK)

Recent efforts of parents, education experts, and Congress to expand the definition of handicapped children (under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) to include attention deficit disorder victims failed when the National Association for the Advancement for Colored People intervened on behalf of Black children, already…

The mnemonic keyword method was modified to help French-speaking undergraduates at a Canadian university learn the meaning and the grammatical gender of German nouns. Results bear on the encoding and retrieval of complex associations between a German noun and its grammatical gender. (TJH)

Summarizes linguistic research on the sound, shape, and meaning of phrases, and describes several classroom procedures for helping students become aware of the phonological rules underlying spoken English and incorporate that knowledge in developing a written voice. (MM)

Presents a categorization of distance education methodologies in the form of a taxonomy that compares correspondence study-based distance education approaches with telecommunications-based approaches. Interaction between teachers and students and between students themselves in the distance learning process is highlighted, and a new definition of…

Reviews psychological conceptions of giftedness. Discusses the current status of education of the gifted. Introduces current public policy issues and concerns related to future policy issues. Recommends new directions for research. (Author/BJV)

Better integration of basic principles about human development--such as targeted environmental prevention, metacognitive conveyance, and ecological dominion--with treatment practices for children may solve key issues about the nature of mental retardation and the goals of treatment programs, and will yield substantial benefits to individuals and…

This introduction to the journal's topical issue on supply and demand in special education personnel preparation notes methodological issues in assessing supply and demand, definitional issues, and the importance of accurate determination of supply and demand needs in special education. (DB)

Discusses an activity-based approach to working with children with disabilities. Suggests that the strategies and planning involved in including a special needs child in an early childhood setting are the same as those used for planning programs for any child, but require a greater amount of detail. (HTH)

Explains many well-known problems associated with trying to correlate "intelligence" measures with measures of "race," such as reification, circular arguments, biological definitions of race, comparison of individual and group differences, correlation versus causation, intelligence quotient heritability, and ideology/social…

Reviews federal definitions of sexual harassment and traces some court cases to show that sexual harassment encompasses verbal, visual, or mental harassment that can be overt or implied. Some actions employers might take to prevent and stop sexual harassment are suggested. (SLD)