Whether reluctant readers are extremely bright, average, or below average in intelligence, they pose a problem for every school. Here's an account of what one school successfully did for its reluctant readers. (Editor)

At the Lake Campus of Wright State University, students are required to complete two courses in English composition. In the second, English 102, the focal assignment is an eight- to ten-page research essay, typically with either an argumentative slant or a topic that requires some sort of interpretive analysis. When the department selected an…

This paper reports on a three year follow-up study of 43 heroin addicts who received detoxification services with a startling success rate of only 2percent. (Author)

A study was conducted to investigate the influence of systematic trends in the successfulness of children's performance upon subsequent parental disciplinary actions. A total of 30 mothers 24 to 45 years of age and their sons, ages 4 to 7.5 years, participated. Mothers were provided with predetermined sequences of trial-by-trial information about…

A previous study examined determinants of attributions for success or failure in stopping smoking in a self-help treatment program with and without a drug component. This follow-up study examined the attributions that successful quitters made after remaining abstinent through 12 months, or after they relapsed. Subjects (N=137) had been assigned to…

The Baltimore schools' mainstreaming program for deaf students are critiqued, and reasons for the programs successes and failures are recounted. Among success factors considered are administrative support, inservice teacher education programs, and special events including presentations of the Little Theatre of the Deaf. (CL)

In this paper the first year accomplishments and failings of the Carter Administration in civil rights enforcement are assessed. Areas considered include the following: leadership and management, employment, education, housing, health and social services, and veterans affairs. Enforcement in some areas has improved but progress has been slow and…

This guide for parents and students provides descriptions of the 22 magnet schools and 4 magnet programs which make up the city-wide magnet district of the Boston public schools. The information provided was gathered through interviews with administrators, teachers, parents and students at each of the 26 sites. Principals and headmasters at each…

Examines the thesis that the junior college is an intricately ordered mechanism for structuring and concealing the mass failure of the academically non-gifted students. (RB)

A group of 253 male students in a freshman chemistry class participated in this research, which investigated the relationship between performance attributions and expectations and performance on a subsequent task. College students attributed their success or failure on two chemistry tests to ability, effort, luck, or task difficulty, and indicated…

Remedial writers tend to be students who have never written very much, who come from families or neighborhoods in which more than one language may be spoken, and who have sensed their problems but have been unable or unwilling to do much to alleviate the difficulties. Unfortunately, the environment and attitudes of many college remedial programs…

This study investigated college major (CM) of cadets as a possible predictor of success in naval aviation training. Each of 1,245 pilot trainees who had been successful student aviators but failed to become aviators was placed into one of ten categories according to his CM. For each of the categories, arithmetic means of all primary selection test…