To help secondary teachers meet the challenge of teaching slow learners and/or other special students, the author relates his experiences with teaching academically below average eighth graders placed in a college level personal typing class, and offers some suggestions for teaching typewriting to the slow learner in a regular class setting. (TA)

Learning disabilities are a health threat because they prevent a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and they should be treated with a variety of remedial strategies reflecting their multiple causes. (MB)

The principal of a Montana elementary school using direct instruction methods discusses the positive results students and school are experiencing as a result of the students' reading success. (MD)

Community-based organizations provide special services and opportunities to women training for nontraditional occupations. (JOW)

Describes the rationale for the Camden (New Jersey) Direct Instruction project, an instructional system used in elementary schools. Presents two studies completed by the project in 1984-85: a study of the improvement of reading instruction and a study of the use of Direct Instruction in "transitional classrooms" with students having…

Most women who maintain families have a strong commitment to the labor force but have lower average educational attainment and earnings, bringing them closer to poverty with each additional child. (JOW)

States that if educational equality is defined, not in terms of equal learning facilities and equally well qualified teachers, but in terms of equal outcomes, equality has not been achieved. True equality implies recognition of learning as life-long process, for the purpose of self-fulfillment. (Author/RW)

This report, the fifth annual report on the Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP), provides policymakers, educators, parents, and the community with a general accounting and precise overview of the performance of Colorado's third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth grade students relative to the Colorado State Model…

Nineteen well known figures, with a common interest in disadvantaged learners, are interviewed. Many are respected members of educational institutions with expertise in teacher unions, undergraduate education, school reform, achievement gaps, research universities, preschool education at home, and teacher training. The authors of…

The BBC should present programs which are geared, both in content and method of presentation, to the educationally disadvantaged since radio and television are among the more obvious ways to reach them. The issue arises from discussion of a Fourth Channel. (Author/AG)

Presented a number of evaluative instruments to determine if remedial students had problems which prevented them from learning and to determine if they had learning disabilities which could not be overcome simply by increased interest in education or an improved attitude toward it. (Author/RK)

Article describes a program designed by the Delaware Opportunities Industrialization Center for returning Vietnam veterans searching for an education. (RK)

Article describes a program in which handicapped and disadvantaged individuals are given special instruction and prepared for the occupation of drafting. (HB)

Purpose of the study was to provide an adequate test of the original Rosenthal and Jacobson teacher expectancy hypothesis by using: (a) equivalent control and experimental groups based on pretest data, and (b) a more suitable test of intelligence. (Authors/CB)