Identifies areas of progress and unresolved problems in achieving educational equity for Hispanic students. The information summarized is based on two regional conferences on the topic. Statistical data are from the National Center for Educational Statistics. (Author/MLF)

School districts should be allowed to dispense with labeling children as disadvantaged and to use the Title I support they receive in schools that have a high proportion of children from poor families. (Author/MLF)

An evaluation of 14 independent experiments in early intervention, conducted in the late 1950s and early 1960s, revealed program characteristics related to positive outcome: the early age at intervention; the higher adult-child ratio; and more home visits, direct participation of parents, and services for families. (Author/MLF)

In full-day kindergarten, the teacher has the time to regularly assess each child's progress, to diagnose deficiencies, and to alter the instruction accordingly. (Author)

For women, improvements have been made in high school athletics and interscholastic sports and in enrollment and graduation rates through college. Disparities continue to exist in the nontraditional vocational education courses; physical sciences; in graduate degrees awarded, particularly in the sciences; and in extracurricular participation in…

Some causes of the low proportion of females in educational administration are: personal and social roles; personal and family constraints; and discriminatory patterns in training, hiring, and promotion. (Author/MLF)

Case studies of the implementation of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act in 17 school districts show that we have seen only the early stages of increased opportunities for the handicapped. (Author/MLF)

Four crucial areas in the success of mainstreaming are good communication, administrative support, adequate time, and inservice training. (Author)

Postcards with a handwritten message from the teacher elicited positive reactions from students enrolled in an introductory psychology course. (Author/MLF)

A national survey shows that principals spend the greatest part of their time in the office responding to communications and engaged in paper work. (Author/MLF)

Denmark's informal residential schools provide practical work experiences in humanistic, innovative settings. (Author)

Important classroom management tasks occur during the first several weeks of the year, when the teacher establishes expectations about behavior and teaches the students the classroom procedures. (Author)

Contends that New Jersey's Minimum Basic Skills (MBS) tests in reading and mathematics waste time and money and should not be used by the state as the criteria to measure school and district performance. Low scores are the result of social conditions schools cannot correct by themselves. (Author/MLF)

The New Jersey Commissioner of Education replies that the Minimum Basic Skills (MBS) tests are not the sole criterion used to measure school and district performance and that some schools manage to teach well despite their students' low socioeconomic level. (Author/MLF)

Radical, but nevertheless serious, suggestions are made to change ineffective schools. (MLF)