This program is designed to provide an individualized series of vocationally useful sub-skills in a wide variety of areas to trainable mentally handicapped students in a prevocational program. The Introduction and General Information section is categorized into What the Program Is Designed to Do, Who Can Use the Program, How to Modify the Program…

The Research Apprentice Program for Minority High School Students is a summer program of the University of Vermont which recruits academically outstanding minority students to study with internationally recognized scientists and to participate in research projects. The selection process and the benefits to both students and the university are…

Gifted/talented junior high students in a special art program made self-portraits which incorporated both their physical appearance and their personalities, interests, and feelings. To make the students feel more comfortable with the project, photographic accuracy was deemphasized, and an interpretive narrative portrait was stressed. (JDD)

Discusses profound effect PL 99-457 will have upon rural school districts as they attempt to comply by providing adequate services to handicapped youngsters from birth to age five. Addresses shortage of qualified teachers, coordination and funding of services, opportunities for interagency collaboration, incentives to serve, and preparation…

Addresses the problems of special education in the larger context of curriculum theory. Points out the inadequacy of considering such issues as mainstreaming, identification of exceptional students, and teacher training in isolation from more fundamental questions of learning goals or outcomes. (TE)

Placement decision committees (n=10) were given information on 12 referred pupils, half of which included social history information on the pupil and orthogonally half of which were recommended for special education services by an outside psychologist. The results are discussed in terms of information advocacy within the committees. (Author)

This document presents minimum standards for approval of gifted and talented programs that meet the requirements of the Standards of Accreditation adopted by the Arkansas State Board of Education February 22, 1984, which have been effective since June 1, 1987. Included are guidelines enabling school districts to: (1) establish equitable criteria…

The associate commissioner of education reaffirms a national commitment to provide full educational services to all handicapped children. (Author)

"In Broward County, Florida, four teams of specialists are helping to bring a multifaceted approach to learning in hundreds of classrooms. Art and communications specialists are included on each team which serve disadvantaged students. (Author/JL)

A mother's experiences in finding services for her deaf daughter in a small town are described. It is suggested that parents must be assertive in stating their child's educational needs to school personnel, who must see the impairment in the context of the whole family. (SEW)

Financial, demographic, and socioeconomic data on Wisconsin school districts are employed to investigate the relationship among labeling children as handicapped, educational program determinations, and cost assessments. Analysis using two mathematical models indicates, among other things, that availability of fiscal resources leads to more…

Presents findings of a case study of three New York City high schools conducted in 1980 to determine the effects of retrenchment. Focuses on six areas: instruction, programs, support services, facilities, equipment and supplies, and extracurricular activities. (WD)

A study explored perceptions of 43 students on benefits gained from participating in the Science Fair Summer Camp program in Fort Pierce, Florida. Benefits included the availability of equipment/technology, opportunities to interact with teachers and scientists, opportunities for research design, and opportunities actually to engage in the process…

This article questions whether advocacy efforts in gifted education have been misguided by over emphasis on achieving a federal mandate. It uses the creative problem solving framework to redefine the problem as one of availability of gifted and talented programs and emphasizes the importance of state financial solutions to existing inequities.…

In this interview, Dr. Abraham Tannenbaum, an author and leader of numerous research projects concerning gifted and talented students, discusses homeschooling, the impact of charter schools, magnet schools, and school choice on gifted education, the Ganiech psychosocial definition of giftedness, and the development of gifted programs. (Contains 7…