The booklet is designed to provide professional and lay personnel with guidelines for designing and developing programs and services for gifted and talented students in Connecticut. Author contributed chapters address programing, identification, and evaluation. Entries include the following titles and authors "What Makes Giftedness?…

The report provides guidelines for gifted and talented programs in the state of Kentucky. After a brief statement of the philosophy, the definition of gifted/talented children is given. The identification process is described for children in academic areas and visual and performing arts areas. It is explained that the selection process involves…

This comprehensive document studies poverty in the U.S. and develops a set of recommendations for dealing with the problems. It examines poverty from the perspectives of both the national economy and local areas. It considers circumstances in both labor and consumer markets and looks at public and private activities, at revenue and spending…

The second of a series of four needs assessment related documents provides an inventory of state legislation in the Code of Virginia which is relevant to how the Commonwealth defines and/or responds to the status, conditions, and needs of its children and youth and their families. Section I serves as an overview of the document's contents with…

Theories of social change suggest that both anomy and alienation should increase among low-income people experiencing rapid social change. To more sharply distinguish the causal relationship between social change and the state of peoples' minds in rural and semirural areas of the South, separate hypotheses were developed for anomy (Durkheim's…

Sixteen directors of exceptional education programs, 10 supervisors of specific learning disability (SLD) programs, and 101 principals having SLD classes responded to a 14-question survey regarding the identification and placement of SLD students in Florida. Among findings were that principals were the most outspoken in what they considered…

In order to collect a thesaurus of gifted descriptors and to develop variables and item clusters appropriate for use in impact research, 847 people (404 elementary and 242 secondary school students identified as gifted, 91 elementary and 62 secondary teachers of the gifted, and 73 parents of gifted children) were interviewed. The three major…

Judgment ANalysis (JAN) is described as a technique for identifying the rating policies that exist within a group of judges. Studies are presented in which JAN has been used in evaluating teacher effectiveness by capturing both student and faculty policies of teacher effectiveness at the University of Northern Colorado. In addition, research…

Inadequacies in the quality and quantity of human services for Northeastern rural area residents prompted the seminar from which these transcripts are derived. Presented via chronological order, these transcripts reflect development of a framework and methodology for analysis of community service systems. Major seminar objectives are identified…

Using the Delphi technique, the staff of Project FOLLOW-UP surveyed community college educators in Texas to determine desirable characteristics and uniformity of terminology and definitions for a proposed statewide student follow-up management information system for Texas community colleges. Of 234 individuals invited to become Delphi panel…

Designed to assist in the development of rural areas in the United States, the Rural Development Act of 1972 is divided into seven titles which are named and explicated in this "Staff Explanation". Titles of the Act are presented as follows: (1) Title I--Amendments to the Consolidated Farmers Home Administration Act of 1961 (28…

The fact that career education and vocational education must rely on each other will not prevent conflicting views, due in part to their different genesis, goals, and types of persons served. Educators and evaluators of education should recognize that career education is now faced with a dilemma which many vocational educators have been unwilling…

This paper discusses the report of the California Commission on the Reform of Intermediate and Secondary Education and the proposed Reform of Intermediate and Secondary Education (RISE) bill that resulted from that report. In particular, the authors focus on whether the commission's report and the bill constitute genuine educational reform in…

The presentation from a conference program provides an overview of the framework and process of a mandated competency based teacher education (CBTE) program for training special education teachers in New York State. The New York State definition for a CBTE program is provided. It is noted that the project coordinates CBTE efforts--particularly at…

Examined was the incidence of severe, moderate, and mild behavior disorders in regular grades K-12 in 13 Florida county school districts. Twelve to 20 teachers in each school idstrict were provided with definitions of behavior disorders and asked to identify the number of children in their classes with various degrees of disorder and also to…