Provided are 19 presentations made to 200 participants in a conference on issues of mainstreaming, career education, and teacher education programs for urban handicapped children. Noted are four conference objectives such as improving communication within states between educational agencies and large city special education (SE) personnel.…

An attempt is made to understand the structural and transformational inter-relationships between processes of classification, segmentation, ranking, and segregation in a suburban high school from a cultural point of view. The first of three sections of the paper reviews the acceptance among social scientists in the last decades of the belief that…

The Addiction Research Center Inventory is a 550 item multipurpose test measuring the broad range of physical, emotive, cognitive, and subjective effects of drugs. This manual provides technical information concerning 38 most valid scales, a quantitative method for characterizing the similarity of a profile of scores for the subject, group, or…

This booklet offers practical, easy-to-read suggestions for teachers, paraprofessionals, and parents to help them understand intellectual development and intellectual disabilities. The first section highlights some of the factors involved in intellectual development and the importance of being sensitive to different stages of learning. The second…

The reading program in the Fountain Valley School District is premised on meeting the individual needs of each child. This guide, presented in outline form, is to be used by individual teachers as a reminder and handbook of ideas after a series of conferences presenting the reading program conducted by the building instructional leaders. The…

This document is the fifth volume in a 5-part series that reports the results of a project undertaken to critically review and analyze major longitudinal studies of child and student development. These studies were conducted to discover the variables, techniques, methodologies, and problems pertinent to evaluative studies of the effects of schools…

The placement and proficiency system of the University of Illinois was designed to promote good student attitudes towards courses into which they were placed enable students to perform near their maximum capability, reduce the instructor's burden by generating relatively homogeneous ability groupings in courses, and encourage students to begin…

As a first step in a systematic approach to instructional design, an attempt is made to develop public linguistic systems which would permit a designer to communicate with his colleagues. Abstracting general principles of design from fields other than education, an organized body of instructional design concepts emerges. These concepts are then…

This paper synthesizes the three substantive reports on ability grouping described in TM 000 501-503. It lists the characteristics of ability grouping as practised in American school systems. Extensive conclusions and recommendations, generally unfavorable to ability grouping are given. Alternative educational strategies for improvement of…

The following subject categories are included in this list of bibliographies: Aids in book selection, cataloging and classification, censorship and intellectual freedom, publicity, selected list of basic and inexpensive materials on Michigan, non-book materials, organization and administration of the media center, library for the blind and…

It is noted that most bilingual and special migrant classrooms segregate children with different native languages despite the social disadvantages and the lower motivation for learning English which accrue as a result of such student grouping. This paper suggests administrative and instructional means for providing for these children within…

This research was undertaken to discover the relation among the objectives of various levels of a school district. The research was limited to the high school, school district staff, and board of education. A modification of the Delphi process was used to elicit objectives. Once the objectives were developed, they were classified by central theme…

The purpose of this manual is to illustrate the application of the small group process approach to bilingual education at junior high and senior high school levels. Chapters include (1) "The Group Process Approach," (2) "Skills Required in the Small Group Process Approach," (3) "Learning Environment," (4) "Grouping Procedures," (5) "Activities and…

The purpose of this manual is to assist the librarian and audiovisual director in setting up an audio-tape collection. It contains information needed to initiate, organize, and develop a collection - sources and uses of taped programs, depositories, types of tape, cataloging and classification procedures, filing rules, promotion methods,…

To summarize practice in the organization and administration of non-book materials in libraries and to suggest modifications for Australian practice, this guide comprises a procedure manual for handling non-book materials and services in college of advanced education libraries. Sections of the guide cover the range of materials and equipment to be…