A number of the provisions of the "New York State Board of Regents Action Plan To Improve Elementary and Secondary Education Results in New York" and the revised Part 100 of the Education Commissioner's Regulations have implications for the education of gifted students. The provisions include: (1) allowing able students to accelerate so…

Article looked at how the recently passed school aid program should work. (Editor/RK)

Negative labelling harms by lumping together students with diverse learning problems; instead of diagnosing and treating their problems scientifically, students are stereotyped and relegated to watered down curricula and poor instruction, says one speaker. Other reports on vocational education's response to students special needs are briefly…

The paper explores issues related to the provision of year-round schooling for gifted learners. Noted are individual differences among gifted learners, the trend toward providing differentiated curriculum in all content areas, and the importance of curriculum articulation. Reasons are offered to explain why many of the best gifted programs operate…

This booklet describes 16 model education projects in Colorado that are funded under the federal Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 and the Elementary Secondary Education Act of 1978. These programs illustrate how federal funds have had a positive impact on the education of Colorado students. The projects and the cities where they…

College dropout rate as a function of poor fit between institution and students has been studied extensively, but how this phenomenon operates for disadvantaged students is not adequately understood. This study examines the effects of a project that attempts to use peer relationships--tutoring and mentoring--to improve academic performance and…

A study involving 1,000 minority and limited English proficiency students was designed to gather descriptive data about the population served and analyze methods used to identify potential participants in the gifted and talented program in 15 elementary schools, 7 fifth year centers, and 6 middle schools. A combination of methods was used to…

Purposes and program of the Radcliffe Institute are described from its creation in 1960 as "one effort to change the social climate for women" by offering part-time fellowships so that talented women might again become "visible professionally" to its present increasingly professional orientation. (JT)

Introduction to a special section, "Adapted Physical Education. Other parts of the section are AA 501 889 through AA 501 894.

From a special section, "Adapted Physical Education. Also see AA 501 888, AA 501 890 through AA 501 894.

The document contains proceedings from a convention on educating the gifted student. Brief summaries of presentations cover topics which include: humor as an indicator of giftedness, characteristics of gifted teachers, identification of the gifted and talented student, curriculum for the gifted, leadership training, counseling gifted Black…

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SCHOOLS WITH THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF NONWHITES WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE IF THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION IN RACIALLY IMBALANCED SCHOOLS WAS EQUAL TO THE QUALTIY OF EDUCATION IN OTHER CITY SCHOOLS. IT WAS FOUND THAT THE CITY WAS MAKING A DETERMINED EFFORT TO PROVIDE A HIGH QUALITY OF EDUCATION TO THE IMBALANCED SCHOOLS BY THE…

THE "600" SCHOOLS ARE DESIGNED TO EDUCATE EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED AND SOCIALLY MALADJUSTED CHILDREN WHO ARE RECOMMENDED FOR SPECIAL PROGRAMS BECAUSE THEY ARE UNABLE TO PROFIT FROM INSTRUCTION IN A NORMAL SCHOOL SETTING, WHERE THEY MAKE IT DIFFICULT FOR OTHER CHILDREN TO RECEIVE INSTRUCTION. THE "600" SCHOOLS STRIVE TO…