This paper describes how one non-profit organization is evaluating its effectiveness in providing services to adults with developmental disabilities. Kindcare, a non-profit ecumenical organization serves over 150 adults with developmental disabilities in the southeastern Wisconsin area. The program provides education, social, and support programs…

This annotated bibliography lists 19 publications to help educators more effectively include students with disabilities in general education classrooms. The publications, including books, journal articles, videotapes, and reports, are dated from 1993 through 1999, and most are available through the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)…

Discusses the practice of real-estate agents of steering'' minority families to particular neighborhoods when buying homes, and the programs the Department of Housing and Urban Development have undertaken to eliminate that practice. (JM)

Dual enrollment has been practiced in hundreds of communities across the country for 40 years or more; parochial school children were admitted to public schools for courses which their church schools did not offer. (Author/JM)

Article surveys the background and articulates the educational needs and goals of integrated education. (MB)

A discussion of the shift of the focus of minority group action from assimilation on equal terms with individual majority group members to ethnic identity and redistribution of power among ethnically-based communities. (JM)

This study looks at changes which took place between two major ethnic groups in a plural society by examining their patterns of participation in the same formal educational institutions in that society over a period of forty years." (Author/SE)

This study of interpersonal relationships between teachers, principals, and students finds that attitudes of teachers and principals toward children are correlated positively although pupils' and principals' ratings of teachers lack significant correlation. (JH)

Overeducation is being recognized as college graduates find that a college degree is not a secure ticket to a job. A year spent serving the country is recommended with options including the armed forces, Peace Corps, VISTA, and Conservation Corps. The program could serve as a "sociological mixer." (MLW)

Two frequently made claims about French immersion programs in Canada are analyzed: (1) the planning and implementation of such programs is adequate as practiced to satisfy participants within the program; and (2) resulting improvements in French learning are likely to achieve federal policymakers' goals of ameliorating animosities between…

There is more to French immersion programs in Canada than social class analysis. Program success is determined not by social class per se, but by use of appropriate strategies, staff, resources, and curriculum implementation. (CJ)

In the 1920s and 1930s, educational administrators and physical educators saw athletics as a means of developing those character traits associated with efficient citizenship in a modern industrial society. High school varsity athletic competition has changed little since the early part of this century. (CJ)