A special educator offers a series of guidelines for preparing personnel to provide vocational training for special needs youth, along with strategies for cooperative planning and programs between vocational and special teacher education. (MF)

A collection of six papers, this monograph illustrates how early childhood personnel can work together to eliminate overlap in services, keep communication open, and assist each other in providing appropriate, quality services to young handicapped children residing in rural areas. Mary T. Morse ("Interagency Coordination: An Overview") designates…

The relationship between public and nonpublic or private schools at the elementary and secondary levels is analyzed and ten predictions advanced. The public sector will increase in scope and size and operate as the established educational system. The private sector will decrease in size, be more distinctive and less influenced by prevailing public…

Seven policy papers identify and address several issues pertaining to linkages between Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs and vocational education, special education, and vocational rehabilitation. The first paper examines barriers encountered in administration of federal legislation dealing with education and employment of…

The ideas set forth in this booklet pave a way for the integration of the Title I of the Improving America's Schools Act and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) programs. It describes innovative ways to blend federal funds to help support schools that are serving both children who are disadvantaged and children with disabilities.…

In addition to its significance to educators as a major revision of a Federal education and training program, the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act contains many provisions that will have an impact on the relationship of vocational education to employers and the job training partnership community. The law requires that 43 percent of each…