For this 10th article in the series reviewing recent court decisions concerning appropriate school psychology practice from both professional and legal perspectives, the focus is eligibility under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). For this purpose, the courts have generally agreed that, based on the definitions in the IDEA's…

Despite reasonably high economic growth in recent years, many countries in the Central Eastern Europe/Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS) region struggle to achieve high national standards to guarantee basic rights for all their citizens. Families with young children are particularly vulnerable and are often unable to provide a stable and…

College officials worry that too many of their peers use merit aid to "buy" students whose test scores will burnish their institutions' rankings in "U.S. News & World Report." In fact, the debate about financial aid on today's campuses has led to the near vilification of merit aid. The lament is that money is often diverted…

This response to Reynolds et al. (EC 605 232) commends the authors for refocusing the discussion from classification of students to eligibility for service but suggests that their 20/20 model may be an oversimplification and inadvertently systematize inequities of the current system, including urban/suburban differences and intraindividual…

The author asserts that current federal education policy and student aid programs effectively discriminate against older, part-time, low income students. She calls for changes aimed at achieving equity for adult, part-time learners when the Higher Education Act is considered for reauthorization. (SK)

This rejoinder to commentary on the authors' proposal (EC 605 232) for a simplified basis for determining special education program eligibility (based on local school reading achievement norms) stresses that the proposal is intended only as a first phase, to be followed by emphasis on overall program improvement. (DB)

Presents a historical perspective on Bylaw-5-1-(j), better known as Proposition 48, of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which calls for tougher academic standards for students seeking to participate in Division I athletics. Proposition 48 seems to be a relatively logical step in the evolution of the freshman eligibility…

This annual report of the National Alliance of Black School Educators (NABSE) Commission on Policy Development in Public Education presents six position papers by NABSE and guest authors. The papers, and their authors, are (1) "The Quest for Excellence/Pupil Self-Esteem" (Carole Hardeman); (2) "Engineering Education for Minority…

This paper addresses the problem of identifying and developing talent in children from culturally different backgrounds in New Zealand. The paper offers examples of how even applying the recommended "best practice" of multi-dimensional identification approaches can be inadequate for identifying gifted children from Maori, Polynesian, or…

This article discusses the strategy that the University of Maryland pursued in defending the constitutionality of its race-based Benjamin Banneker Scholarship program for black students. It also analyzes the respective decisions of the district court and court of appeals, which recently declared the scholarships unconstitutional. (MDM)

Twenty-four questions regarding school choice concerns are answered in this document, which advocates school choice in public schools for Massachusetts. The following issues are included: the rationale for school choice; drawbacks to currently available choice options; components of an effective choice plan; the definition and maintenance of…

This monograph is organized in three main sections addressing problems, promising practices, and equitable procedures low cost in the identification of students with gifted potential. The first section considers problems in identification. These include: (1) elitist and distorted definitions of giftedness, (2) confusion about purposes of…

Presents, in interview format, the views of the following people on Proposition 48 of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which calls for tougher academic standards for students seeking to participate in Division I athletics: (1) Joseph Johnson, President, Grambling State College; (2) John Slaughter, Chairman, NCAA's President's…

Participation in sport can be a great educational vehicle to help develop the full potential of young people. The long-term effect of Proposition 48 of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which calls for tougher academic standards for students seeking to participate in Division I athletics, seems to be very positive. (BJV)

Proposition 48 of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which calls for tougher academic standards for students seeking to participate in Division I athletics, discriminates against Black athletes and historically Black colleges and universities. The NCAA violates antitrust laws by price-fixing; it is not essential or even important…