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Download full textAchieving the Dream, 2022
Gateway courses in English challenge students to strengthen skills in critical thinking, reading, grammar, and writing structure and strategies -- skills that also help build competency in comprehension and composition. They can also prove to be a particular challenge to many community college students. This case study examines the efforts at…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Community Colleges, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Harris, Jasper W.; And Others – 1975
Presented is the final report of a 4-year project to develop and evaluate a prototype program for training special education consultants who are qualified to assist school personnel and parents in remediating academic and social behaviors of handicapped children in the Kansas City (Missouri) area. An overview and introduction are provided in the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Consultants, Diagnostic Teaching, Exceptional Child Education
College Reading Research and Practice: Articles from "The Journal of College Literacy and Learning."
Paulson, Eric J., Ed.; Laine, Michaeline E., Ed.; Biggs, Shirley A., Ed.; Bullock, Terry L., Ed. – 2003
This volume presents 27 articles from "The Journal of College Literacy and Learning," a peer-reviewed journal (formerly the "Forum for Reading") produced by the International Reading Association's College Literacy and Learning Special Interest Group. Following "Foreword" (Donna E. Alvermann) and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, Higher Education, Literacy
McCarthy, Jeanne McRae – 1973
Described is a research and demonstration program for elementary school children with specific learning disabilities (LD), involving diagnostic services for 1,238 Ss and individually prescribed remediation for 990 Ss over a 3-year period. Eight chapters cover the following: organization, administration, and delivery of services; a comparison of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Educational Programs
Fotos, Joseph P. – 1976
A team led by the author developed and implemented a model program to aid the learning disabled (LD) child in a small school district remote from an intermediate service unit. The program's aims were to help the LD child achieve grade level more readily in the basic skills; to assist him in achieving a higher opinion of himself, his peers, his…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Development, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Murphy, Bruce; Pawasarat, John – 1980
A study identified and analyzed successful national youth projects which have the highest job placement rates, the highest rate of returning youths to school, and the most effective combination of basic skills remediation and job placement. The analysis and identification was based on a summary of literature; discussions with local, state, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Basic Skills, Case Studies, Education Work Relationship
