Increasingly, training programs for teachers of students with both limited English proficiency and disabilities have emphasized an interface between special education and bilingual education. A pilot staff development program of the California Special Education Project, which includes a combination training and implementation phase, exemplifies…

Issues in sponsored research are addressed: institutional commitment and targeted budget allocations, administrative and faculty commitment--structure and support services; sponsored research and institutional characteristics; and faculty development programs--research-oriented. (MLW)

A new undergraduate program that stresses interdisciplinary connectedness, formal reasoning, intercultural understanding, and speaking and writing skills implemented at Hamline University is described. The Hamline Plan provides skills that students demand: computer literacy and real-life work experience. (MLW)

Presents four stories on humane education that can be used with lessons. Provides directions, teacher notes, and story cards on copyable sheets for students. (RT)

Described is a lesson in which the midpoint of the measuring stick (center of gravity), the balance point of the stick (fulcrum) and the arithmetic mean are assumed to be the same point. Provides content background, lesson outline, procedure, evaluation, teacher notes, and diagrammatical representations. (RT)

Outlines developments that took place in teaching agriculture at the freshman-sophomore level and the concept of integrated courses in agriculture. Future directions include: more emphasis on the impact of technology, case-study forms, and efforts to shift the balance from content to concept. (Author/RT)

Describes a course provided for health profession-oriented students. Uses a chemical basis to explain the physiology of drug action while considering appropriate patient care. Outlines course content and testing procedures. (Author)

Reviews multidisciplinary research on second culture and second language reading comprehension to support the claim that second language reading is an interactive process, involving the interrelationship of cultural schemata and discourse structure. Argues for the roles of cultural schemata and discourse structure in an interactive model of first…

The Television Programming Challenge was designed for junior high school students to show applications of mathematics in the real world. Eight-member groups were paired to attend seminars on different skill areas, and then worked together to report on a television schedule. (MNS)

Presented are the rationale and varied possibilities for collaboration between medical personnel and educators. A model for such collaboration is the Child Development Project at Boston City Hospital (Massachusetts), a project which provides intervention services for children, from birth to 5 years, with developmental delays and disturbances.…

Describes the mechanistic model of language on which automatic indexing is based, and examines the underlying assumptions of the model to demonstrate the ineffectiveness of this indexing. It is argued that theoretical research from the fields of linguistics, psychology, and philosophy need to be incorporated into automatic indexing to overcome…

The article describes differences between consultation and collaboration among special education and regular classroom teachers and makes the argument that collaboration deserves far greater attention in current attempts to redefine relationships between specialists and teachers in the schools. (Author/DB)

More important than creating an interdisciplinary major is the need for all teachers to be solidly grounded in liberal learning. Several collaborative programs blending the liberal arts and pedagogical studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are offered by the College of Liberal Arts. (MLW)

The challenge for engineering education is to capture, from the beginning of the freshman year, the student's interest in liberal learning and then to accomplish four aims of general education. The aims include: language (reading, writing, and speaking skills), ethics, context, and adaptability. (Author/MLW)

A three-year curriculum in medical ethics operates at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University as part of the general internal medicine residency program. The six major topics covered are co-taught as seminars by one or more members of the multidisciplinary ethics faculty (philosopher, internist, and communications specialist) and experienced…