Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Report of the Panel
  • Introduction: Disproportion in special education
  • Placement in special education: historical developments and current procedures
  • Assessment: issues and methods
  • Effective instruction for mildly mentally retarded children
  • New approaches to assessment and instruction
  • Background papers
  • Biological and social factors contributing to mild mental retardation / Jack P. Shonkoff
  • Classifying mentally retarded students: a review of placement practices in special education / William E. Bickel
  • Testing in educational placement: issues and evidence / Jeffrey R. Travers
  • Effects of special education placement on educable mentally retarded children / Kirby A. Heller
  • Some potential incentives of special education funding practices / Suzanne S. Magnetti
  • Patterns in special education placement as revealed by the OCR surveys / Jeremy D. Finn.