Myths of mainstreaming in education debated by expert
Libby Goodman, keynote speaker at the Good Teaching Practices Conference in Carbondale, questions mainstreaming as the universal solution for handicapped students. She cites factors for placement, cites a blind school as a model, and notes parental views vary by severity, with concerns about available services and classroom fit.
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Libby Goodman
Philadelphia
Carbondale
Illinois State Board of Education
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Department of Special Education
The
Student Council For Exceptional Children
Mainstreaming Myth and the Strains on Teachers
Ms. Goodman argues that full integration of handicapped students into regular classrooms is limited by academic variance, time, and teacher readiness. She warns against placing all students in mainstream settings without adequate support, noting higher costs, potential social isolation, and looming budget cuts under Reagan era proposals.
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Goodman
Reagan
Ms. Goodman
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Area Couple Announces Engagement of Groves and Falmier
Diana Lynn Groves and Steven Gene Falmier announce their engagement. The bride elect is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Groves of West Frankfort. The prospective groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Falmier of Carterville. Miss Groves works as a bookkeeper at the Bank of West Frankfort. Falmier is a salesman for Bowman Tires in Marion. A May 15 wedding is planned.
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Diana Lynn Groves
Steven Gene Falmier
James A. Groves
West Frankfort
Fred Falmier
Carterville
Miss Groves
Bank of West Frankfort
Falmier
Bowman Tires
Marion
Bound for trouble with the IRS
A letter-writer reveals 15 years of nonfiled federal and state returns, no books, no Social Security, and no life insurance. The advice urges a lawyer now, warns of future burdens on the spouse and children, and notes the risk if both die. The column also covers a mastectomy-related behavioral change and a future about conceiving with a pot-using husband, urged to quit to improve fertility.
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Dear Ann Landers
IRS
Ann Landers
In Contention for World's Fastest
Erma Bombeck recalls rapid feats from a car wash attendant who readied a car in 43 seconds and a clerk who moves with bureaucratic speed. She also notes a cleaning woman who races to retrieve thrown paper, likening her speed to four-minute miles.
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Erma Bombeck
Fastest people in my life and a lunch rush tale
The narrator recalls a child who in three minutes emptied a hot water tank and caused chaos with lipstick walls, toilet tissue, a lint trap, and more. A waitress then sped through a lunch rush in twenty minutes, burning lips with coffee and dropping the check, all before preparing for the luncheon rush. Field Enterprises, Inc.
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Field Enterprises, Inc
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