This paper from the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges is a chronological summary of the legislation and regulations adopted from 1987-1990, which govern basic skills instruction in the community colleges. The Seymour Campbell Matriculation Act of 1986 directs the Chancellor to develop a funding formula for matriculation, and…

M. A. K. Halliday's continuum of linguistic styles or modes of representing experience employs two classifications of writing styles: (1) synoptic, and (2) dynamic. The synoptic style represents the world as a world of things, of products, of structures. This style is usually associated with carefully planned, formal writing. The chief…

This report calculates the financial costs incurred by Michigan businesses and institutions of higher education when students leave high school without learning the basic skills. Five different strategies are used for determining this cost, they are: direct expenditures for remedial education by Michigan institutions of higher education and…

The enactment and early implementation of remedial education policy reform was examined in Massachusetts and Oklahoma. The study also addressed the question of why "stakes for students" is an increasingly attractive option in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education reform. In these states, as in others, the high levels of…

A summary of a Human Resources Research Organization report, on the level of reading, listing, and arithmetic skills needed in four military occupational specialities and width of the gap between skills possessed and skills needed, emphasized the need for remedial literacy training and more learning-by-listening opportunities. (AG)

Estimates of children having reading disabilities range from three to 30 percent of all children in school. Is there any reason to suppose that the figure for math disabilities is any different? (Author)

Article describes cross age teaching programs in five different schools and gives reasons for their success. (GB)

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

This paper presents deficit grouping within a resource room as an organizational alternative to the creation of self-contained classrooms. (Author)

The communication model, described within the framework of channels, levels, and processes, is intended to clarify evaluative, prescriptive, and instructional practices for exceptional children. (Author/KW)

How to use listening to responses as a diagnostic tool to discover children's reading and comprehension problems. (RB)

The research here reported is a result of growing interest in the early identification and remediation of learning disabilities among preschool and primary age youngsters. A screening test is described. (Author/BY)

Two programs designed for the disadvantaged are described--(1) the Transitional Year Program, which prepares the student for regular college courses, and (2) the Urban University Development Program, which pays for an entire 4-year college course. (JW)