This paper is designed to familiarize parents of children with disabilities about why and how Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 affects the education of children with disabilities, to illustrate the differences between Section 504 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and to provide a basic explanation of how…

The right of homeless children and youth to enjoy a free, appropriate public education is ensured in Oregon by ORS 339.115 (3). This law establishes that homeless children and youth cannot be denied enrollment simply because they lack a fixed place of residence or because they are not under a parent's or guardian's supervision. State Board of…

This technical assistance paper aims to facilitate the team process for developing Individualized Education Programs (IEP) for students with disabilities. The guidelines provide suggestions for meeting legal requirements related to IEP development and offer recommendations designed to be responsive to parents, useful for educators and students,…

This resource bulletin focuses on problems in the lives of adolescents that affect students' engagement in schoolwork (drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, the increasing adolescent suicide rate) and considers the school's role with and responsibility for troubled students. It looks specifically at the high school's use of support groups to help such…

Although the problem identified drugs as the biggest problem facing toady's schools in the 1986 Gallup Poll Survey on education, only 16% of parents listed drugs. This handbook presents an action plan to overcome the denial of the drug problem in schools and a sets forth a comprehensive program to eliminate alcohol and other drugs from schools. In…

Educators must attend to complex and subtle possibilities for hidden learning and attempt to control them so as to mitigate harmful learning and promote educational benefit. Educators have always known that people learn from both the unnoticed and the noticed, and have attempted to shape unconscious experience. As education has become more of a…

The purpose of this course project was to produce a handbook on day nursery program development for children from 6 weeks through 71 months of age residing in the State of Indiana. Intended for early childhood teachers and program directors the handbook includes Indiana State licensing rules and regulations mandated by the Indiana Department of…

Author provided an interesting and convincing argument for lowering the compulsory attendance age. (RK)

Accrediting agencies furnish standards to be met for accreditation, but the procedure for making the self-study is left to the school to devise. Conducted with foresight, a self-study creates pride and esprit de corps. The authors offer a feasible plan for conducting such a self-study. (Author/AJ)

Despite privacy concerns, school administrators are feeling pressure to adopt urgent measures to keep drugs and alcohol from further endangering our youth's well-being and undermining staff performance. This urgency is reinforced by a national anti-drug campaign and Congressional passage of the Drug-Free Workplace Act (1988) and the Drug-Free…

A collaborative study between 100 Phi Delta Kappa chapters attempted to answer the following questions about at-risk students: (1) who is at risk; (2) what are they like; (3) what is the school doing to help these students; and (4) how effective are these efforts? Each chapter identified three representative public schools in its area: one…

This report describes ways of eliminating sexual harassment from Washington State schools. It is divided into nine sections. Section I examines the relationship between sexual harassment and societal norms and myths which support sexual exploitation of women. Section II defines sexual harassment as any unwanted sexual attention on the job or in…

Court decisions concerning the residential placement of disabled children have tended to assign the primary responsibility to school districts when a child's education is affected by the placement. Because the costs of full-time residential placement are very high, school districts should analyze requests for such placement quickly and should be…

This book explores parents' legal rights concerning their children's elementary and secondary education. Besides certain constitutional rights (including parents' right to direct their children's education), parents and students have been granted various rights under state and federal statutes. This book aims to demystify the law and provide…

This monograph is designed to provide educators with a concise and reliable source of information for developing an Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) curriculum and for establishing school health policies for dealing with students and personnel with AIDS. Instructor qualifications for AIDS education are discussed, along with community…