Explores the avowed goals of academic programs which have been termed Black Studies" and examines their content, methods, resources, and assessment processes. (RJ)

The symposium discussion topic, the current role of differential psychoeducational assessment and training in the fields of learning disabilities and special education, is presented by Lester Mann and then followed by six responses and Lester Mann's rebuttal. (CB)

Paper presented at Symposium on Research and Utilization of Educational Media for Teaching the Deaf (Lincoln, Nebraska, March, 1971. (CB)

A discussion of the aspects of present American society which fit the model of a fascist state, and a well-reasoned analysis of the specific ways in which present public education and educational trends reinforce these elements. (JB)

A survey of the methods of communication used at special schools and units for the hearing-impaired in the United Kingdom showed that the oral method is used in about 90 percent of the unit classes. Findings revealed a rapidly increasing trend to total communication. (Author)

To explode seven common myths about computers in the classroom, the authors explore some of the limitations and strengths of computers in education. They conclude that the computer should not be shunned as a "bogeyman" but should be used as an aid in achieving the overall goals of education. (Author/SJL)

Discusses "Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School Children, et al. v Ann Arbor School District Board," a court decision requiring that teachers be instructed in the role and significance of Black English. Argues that the issues of educational achievement and Black English do not constitute a matter for the courts. (GC)

The Albuquerque Public Schools provide services to severely and profoundly handicapped students in side by side sites, programs in which the handicapped students are educated in special classes alongside nonhandicapped students on regular school campuses appropriate to their chronological ages. (SBH)

In analyzing the educational sequences of Goethe's novel, "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship," the author suggests ways that this literary genre, the bildungsroman, which portrays an individual's development through a series of educational encounters, can provide teacher education students with material for studying the riddlelike quality…

The author discusses other writings on effective college teaching and then presents his list of necessary characteristics for the effective teacher, stressing the interpersonal dimension of the teaching-learning situation. (MF)

The mother of a 7-year-old deaf girl describes her daughter's early oral training and reviews the family's eventually successful efforts (through due process hearings) to change her public school placement from a total communication-oriented class to an oral program. (CL)