This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by McGrady, H. J. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by McGrady, H. J. Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

Administrative Support for Mainstreaming Learning Disabled Students

Mesa Public Schools 549 N. Stapley Mesa, AZ 85203

In our June/July Feature, "The Kids-in-Between: Some Solutions,'' section editor Harry Chandler introduced three articles concerned with education of the marginally handicapped children. One article on mainstreaming, by Gayle and Don Smith, described a curriculum model designed to serve those in the "gray'' area. Termed the Parallel Alternate Curriculum, this program is in the administative control (and protection) of Dr. Harold McGrady, the Mesa Arizona district's Director of Special Education. His article, providing an administrator's perspective on such programs, was inadvertently deleted from the three-piece set. Those who missed reading the June/July issue may wish to consult pages 368-372 in conjunction with reading Dr. McGrady's comments which follow.—GMS

Critics of public school education claim that research based innovations fail, that schools should not change but remain the way they were forty years or more ago. New ideas in teaching do fail, not because the ideas are necessarily bad but because educators and, especially, administrators, expect quick results. Dr. McGrady has been able to avoid the major dangers to educational innovation: lack of proper teacher training and support, lack of sustained administrative support, lack of money, and lack of time. The PAC program is effective, but it would not have survived without the administrative involvement described here—H.N.C.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 18, No. 8, 464-466 (1985)
DOI: 10.1177/002221948501800804


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?