This contingency management adolescent school program integrated vocational training with academic instruction. The students, who were unserved by public education because of emotional handicaps, were afforded an individual treatment program. They demonstrated significant gains in educational skills and exhibited an exceedingly low dropout rate.…

Contrasts the interaction of the student and the library in the typical educational system with the relationship of the student and the library-college. (PF)

The Washington State Cooperative Curriculum Project provides an orderly sequence of precisely defined skills, and allows for both assessment and programing of individual exceptional children, and for communication of student progress to parents. (CL)

A look at how the computer was used to help teachers in Israel deal with students' individual learning problems. (HB)

Individualization of instruction is not likely to take place prior to community realization of the failure of present arrangements.

Individualizing takes much more time and energy than classroom teaching--and is worth it.

Reports on three studies. One involves a comparison of student achievement between students in a streamed versus unstreamed situation. The second involves a comparison of an individualized versus a class-paced approach. The third involves teacher attitude and teaching technique. (GS)

Describes a field trip to the Bermuda Islands, for which students chase the focus of the problem, each investigated methods used, and evaluation of results. (CP)

Synchronized slide-tape units were developed on topics related to polynomials and exponents. Thirteen students used the modules produced; examination and attitudinal data on these subjects are presented. (SD)

Questions the justification of competency based teacher evaluation as it is presently used and recommends that the education profession establish a peer group rating system which would consider a teacher's record as it has accumulated over a period of time. (Author/DB)

In this program, engineering students who have proven to be excellent writers are trained to give individual help to other students. (BB)

Teachers must return to basics and recognize that their role may not be to supply answers, but rather to present questions, situations, or problems to be solved and to stimulate students to investigate issues. This should be achieved within the framework of individualized learning with the student actively participating. (JMF)

Mainstreaming handicapped students without providing adequately for their special needs is malpractice and may lead to litigation. (Author)