This digest identifies current programmatic efforts to inform and support parents and briefly reviews research on the effectiveness of parent education and support programs. The discussion of approaches to parent support focuses on parent education programs, the Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments (Public Law 99-457), Head Start, state…

The report, developed by a special Iowa task force, examined issues of definition, criteria, and identification procedures for learning disabilities as a point of departure for the examination of current practices affecting learning disabled students in Iowa. The committee's working definintion of learning disabilities is presented as a basis for…

The report describes a regionalized system of community based child health centers developed in Iowa to provide coordinated secondary level health services for children with chronic illness and handicapping conditions. The system is based on two principles: (1) Communities will be given the responsibility for determining which health services are…

This document contains a report on state and local emergency medical services programs. It discusses the effect of the transition from federal to state leadership under the block grant and identifies the key issues affecting local delivery of services. The report includes an executive summary and five chapters. Chapter 1 discusses emergency…

The Dial-a-Mentor Project (also called the Dial-a-Teacher Project) at Hinds Junior College in Raymond, Mississippi, was designed to provide an alternative delivery system for adult basic education (ABE) and to combat illiteracy. It was not intended to replace, but rather to enhance, established centrally located programs. Instruction was provided…

This monograph describes inter-institutional network structures in Thailand, Sri Lanka, Japan, and the Philippines which were implemented to improve educational delivery systems at the primary level. Chapter 1, an overview, discusses the similarities and differences in three examples of networks in Thailand, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines. In the…

This document contains the text of a Senate hearing on barriers to health care for the chronically mentally ill. Senator Orrin Hatch discusses the history of health care for the mentally ill and the changing role of the federal government, and Senator Edward Kennedy summarizes legislation initiated for the chronically mentally ill. The…

This report contains materials developed by a committee appointed to review school nursing in Wisconsin; to make recommendations directed at the future mission, objectives, and functions of school nursing; and to address the relationship of school nursing certification to these recommendations. Recommendations made to the Wisconsin Department of…

Principals who make the decision and investment to produce a school newsletter should follow these guidelines to obtain an informative and attractive product. The first step is to define the purpose of the newsletter, then determine the target audience--probably parents--and write the newsletter with them in mind. Next, decide what the newsletter…

"In Search of Excellence," by Peters and Waterman identifies one characteristic of corporate excellence as "unusual effort on the part of apparently ordinary employees." The community college has many students who fit into the category of "ordinary people." Their academic performance can be maximized by recognizing their individual differences,…

The Service Delivery Assessment (SDA) model is a human services evaluation tool which offers a viable alternative to more traditional approaches and is appropriate for small local evaluations as well as large national studies. There are five phases to an SDA study: assignment, pre-assessment, design, analysis, and communication of the findings.…

The first part of the handbook describes the Special Education Supervisors Training Project (SESTP) designed to train 15 special education supervisors each year through a systems approach emphasizing coordination of regular and special education practices and procedures. Specific requirements for Illinois supervisory endorsement in special…

The report, based on a survey of state directors of programs for the gifted, is intended to provide an accurate portrait of gifted education throughout the 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Guam. Data are presented tabularly and by the specific responses to survey questions for the following survey topics: state policies and practices; funding for…

Outlined are components believed to be critical to fostering the development of a comprehensive child care system in Massachusetts: delivery models, curriculum development, staffing, professional development, cost, affordability, and policy. Child care delivery models are discussed in terms of present delivery models, problems in the delivery…

This paper addresses the problem of sexual violence on college and university campuses by presenting an innovative strategy designed to respond to the problem. It describes a consortium of colleges organized around a community rape crisis service and explains how representatives of colleges and universities in the New Haven, Connecticut area have…