The Governor's School of North Carolina (West) serves 400 gifted high school students each summer with a curriculum of cognitive development, conceptual development, and personal and social development. This paper describes the theory of the school, student selection, and plans for the future. (JDD)

The purpose of this study, funded by Jobs for the Future through a grant to the Massachusetts Community Colleges Executive Office, was to: (1) provide an update on the status of developmental education within Massachusetts community colleges; (2) shed light on the alignment between research-based best practices to advance success among…

In November 1996, the voters of Montgomery County (Maryland) approved by referendum an amendment to the County Charter that changed the County Council's review and approval cycle of the six-year Capital Improvements Program (CIP) from an annual to biennial cycle. The referendum specified that in odd-numbered fiscal years (on-years) the County…

We discuss the problem of autism-specific special education programs representing themselves as Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) programs when the only ABA intervention employed is Discrete Trial Teaching (DTT), and often for limited portions of the school day. Although DTT has many advantages to recommend its use, it is not well suited to teach…

A summary is presented of the activities undertaken by the new Special Needs Section of the New and Related Services Division at the American Vocational Association's 1975 Convention. (AJ)

Public Law 93-380 extends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the impact laws, Adult Education Act, Bilingual Education Act, Indian Education Act, Education of the Handicapped Act, and Emergency School Aid Act. (NQ)

Described is a procedure (Audit Dress Rehearsal) used in a special education program audit consultation service which included a practice audit designed to lower anxiety and raise awareness of concern for program success. The introduction includes sections dealing with evaluation and audit personnel, planning and implementing an audit, and stages…

THE MORRISTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT HAD FOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, GRADES K-8, AND A SINGLE HIGH SCHOOL. THERE WERE NO JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS. ONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, LAFAYETTE, HAD 95 PERCENT NEGRO POPULATION, AND THE OTHER THREE HAD FEWER THAN 10 PERCENT NEGROES EACH. THE EDUCATION AT LAFAYETTE SCHOOL WAS GENERALLY ACCEPTED AS INFERIOR TO THE OTHER…

BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS ARE GIVEN OF PROGRAMS FOR CULTURALLY DEPRIVED IN THE COMMUNITIES OF BEDFORD, GREENBURG, KINGSTON, AND OPPENHEIM-EPHRATAH. IN THE FIRST THREE, SPECIAL PROGRAMS ARE BENEFITING ELEMENTARY GRADE PUPILS IN MIDDLE-CLASS COMMUNITIES. IN THE FOURTH, A RURAL COMMUNITY, ABOVE AVERAGE STUDENTS WITH LOW READING LEVELS ARE SELECTED FOR AN…

STUDENTS IDENTIFIED AS "HARD-CORE" FUTURE DROPOUTS BY COUNSELORS, TEACHERS, AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS SHOULD BE GROUPED TOGETHER FOR A COMPREHENSIVE, SHORT-TERM COURSE. SOME OF THE REALISTIC OBJECTIVES OF A TERMINAL PROGRAM FOR POTENTIAL DROPOUTS ARE--TO PREPARE STUDENTS WHO ARE DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL FOR IMMEDIATE EMPLOYMENT, TO…

THE PURPOSE IS TO ASSIST ADMINISTRATORS IN UNDERSTANDING, ORGANIZING, AND OPERATING A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM FOR BRIGHT AND GIFTED STUDENTS. ASPECTS INCLUDE IDENTIFICATION OF STUDENTS WHO NEED SPECIAL ATTENTION, COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE, SELECTION AND TRAINING OF TEACHERS FOR GIFTED PROGRAMS, GROUPING IN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS, NONGRADED…

THE EAST ORANGE EDUCATION PLAZA WAS A PROPOSAL DEVELOPED TO PROVIDE BETTER EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR CHILDREN FROM KINDERGARTEN THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL. THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF THE PLAZA WOULD ENCOURAGE DEVELOPMENT OF A PROGRAM WHICH WOULD APPLY TO ALL KINDS OF STUDENTS. SPECIALIZED TEACHERS AND SPECIAL RESOURCES WOULD BE BROUGHT TOGETHER IN ONE…

ATTITUDES REQUIRED OF THE AMERICAN IN HIS COMMERCIAL, VERBAL, AND URBAN SOCIETY HAVE NOT BEEN CHARACTERISTICALLY HELD BY THE AMERICAN NEGRO BECAUSE THE EXPERIENCES NECESSARY FOR DEVELOPING THESE ATTITUDES HAVE BEEN DENIED TO HIM. NONE OF THE EXISTING PROGRAMS ESTABLISHED BY NEGRO INTEGRATIONISTS ACCOMPLISH THEIR GOALS IN ACCEPTABLE TIME. THE…

EDUCATORS AND CITIZENS ARE EXHORTED NOT TO LOSE SIGHT OF OR TO CONFUSE THE REAL ISSUES OF RACIAL SEGREGATION IN THE SCHOOLS WITH THE OTHER PERIPHERAL ISSUES.THROUGH THE SHORTSIGHTEDNESS OF MANY AND THE RECKLESSNESS OF SOME, GOOD POLICIES OF EDUCATION ARE NOW BEING TURNED ONE AGAINST THE OTHER, BRINGING THE CAUSE OF INTEGRATION INTO A COLLISION…

The paper describes Youthdale School, a psychiatric day treatment facility in Ontario, designed to assist the continued functioning or reintegration of disturbed students (8 to 18 years old) in the community. The program operates on the premise that primary responsibility for the students' education is the parents' rather than a governmental…