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Eppele, Ruth – 1989
This 31-item bibliography which ranges from 1981 to 1988 focuses on the special needs of gifted students in the reading classroom and the challenges to the reading teacher to encourage gifted students to stretch intellectually and to develop critical thinking and reading skills. The articles deal with issues related to reading material selection,…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Gifted Disadvantaged
Goldstein, Herbert; Goldstein, Marjorie T. – 1980
The booklet focuses on the use of the logical inductive strategy to teach problem solving skills to mildly retarded learners. An introductory section examines three research studies on interventions in the area of problem solving with the retarded learner and concludes, among other things, that mainstreaming has underscored the need for this…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Guidelines
Renzulli, Joseph S., Ed.; Stoddard, Elizabeth P., Ed. – 1980
Forty-three author contributed papers provide an overview of education for gifted and talented students. The following aspects are addressed (sample subtopics in parentheses): the identification continuum (teacher identification, behavior rating scales, implications for equality of educational opportunity); characteristics of the gifted…
Descriptors: Creativity, Cultural Differences, Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education
Utley, Cheryl A.; Obiakor, Festus E. – 1997
This digest reviews scientific and methodological problems in special education research related to race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. The first section of the digest discusses the various definitions of race, ethnicity, culture, and socioeconomic status. The problems with current race classification and the difficulties in determining the…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Disabilities
Prehm, Herbert J., Ed. – 1987
The proceedings of the 1986 Symposium on the Future of Special Education contains 12 papers. Presenters represented the following groups: state education agency directors, large school district directors, small school district directors, teachers, parents, teacher educators, researchers, and Canadian school administrators. An initial paper by F.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Policy, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Research Connections in Special Education, 2000
This issue describes how researchers are studying ways to reduce the overrepresentation of students from minority backgrounds in special education. It begins by discussing problems associated with inappropriate classification and placement of minority students, including being denied access to the general education curriculum, being placed in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Curriculum