This is Volume 2 in the three-volume publication, The Handbook of Special Education : Research & Practice. This volume deals with special education research and development concerning students classified in one of the mildly handicapped categories. The authors of Section 1 focus on the topic area of mild mental retardation; the chapters in this section represent an attempt to make sense out of the confusing array of current social, political, educational, and research trends. Section 2 concentrates on behavioral disorders. The five chapters in this section give a thoughtful synthesis of the available literature in the areas of importance for those with an interest in the education of students whose behavioral and emotional needs lead their teachers to view them with special concern. In Section 3 the theme is learning disability. The goal of the set of chapters in this section is to synthesize the research literature in five related aspects

Handbook of Special Education: Research & Practice : Volume 2

Education & Teaching

Walberg, Herbert J.

Reynolds, Maynard C.

Wang, Margaret C.

Schools & Teaching

Pergamon Pr

Condenses and updates the major findings from the first three volumes of "The Handbook of Special Education". This summary text reviews and builds upon the past decade of developments in the field of special education by examining the state-of-the-art (the research base) and the state of practice.

Special Education: Research and Practice : Synthesis of Findings

Butterworth-Heinemann

Special Education: Research and Practice : Synthesis of Findings, 1990

<p>This fourth volume of the Handbook of Special Education: Research and Practice deals with the nature and nurture of gifted and talented youth, issues affecting students with severe disabilities and children and youth at risk. Section one focuses on gifted and talented youth, their identification, practices to accelerate and enrich their learning, their socio-emotional adjustment, and special categories of gifted students. New federal legislation in the US, changing views about intelligence, and growing concern over quality of education, make this section timely and important. Section two concerns students with severe disabilities with topics ranging from how they can be served in regular school and community settings to the transition to work and living in the community. In section three the theme is children and youth at risk from poverty, limited linguistic competence, limited cognitive mastery, and family problems. The chapters highlight what action can be taken to solve the educational problems associated with these risks. Special attention is paid to the problems of education in the inner-city.</p>

Handbook of Special Education: Research & Practice : Volume 4

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Atlases & Maps

Emerald Publishing Limited

This book addresses one of the most urgent questions in American society today, one that is currently in the spotlight and hotly debated on all sides: Who shall rule the schools--parents or educators?  School Choice or Best Systems: What Improves Education? presents an overview of research and practical applications of innovative--even radical--school reforms being implemented across the United States. These fall along a continuum ranging from "parental choice" to "best systems." At the one extreme are schools of choice, which allow parents to choose and even govern schools for their children. These include charter schools, traditional private and parochial schools, schools that are privately governed but publicly funded through vouchers, and those that are funded by private scholarships provided by both corporations and wealthy individuals. At the other extreme are centralized state or district systems, based on reform initiatives and new systems of education that have been developed in response to views of citizens and legislators that schools can do much better. These schools, which specify uniform goals, policies, and programs for each school, are highly innovative systems based on research or representing advanced thinking about "what works," and have attracted wide interest.  Important questions related to schools of choice and best systems are addressed: How can we choose among schools of choice and best systems? Among the various approaches within each of these alternatives? How can we understand their guiding principles and operational practices? What results do they produce? How can we evaluate their claims? In choosing among the alternatives, how should issues of student achievement, accountability, costs, feasibility, and equity be factored in?  This volume brings together leading researchers and education leaders who have carried out the latest studies and advances in the field, providing a forum for them to set forth the arguments and evidence that will be most helpful in making choices for tomorrow's schools. It does not provide a single "right" answer--values and preferences differ across parents, schools, districts, and states. However, there are benefits for all from seeing the rigorous research, challenging thinking, and alternate points of view this volume presents.

School Choice or Best Systems: What Improves Education?

Routledge

Leading thinkers in the fields of education, psychology, social work, urban studies, and business identify ways that collaborative efforts between schools and the communities they serve can improve education for urban students.

School-Community Connections: Exploring Issues for Research and Practice (Jossey Bass Education Series)

Rigsby, Leo C.

Jossey-Bass

Adapting Instruction to Individual Differences (SERIES ON CONTEMPORARY EDUCATIONAL ISSUES)

McCutchan, Pub. Corp

Haiku on Ice

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

AuthorHouse

Adaptive Education Strategies: Building on Diversity

Paul H Brookes Pub Co

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