A study explored the holistic nature of reading failure from the perspective of those who have endured the emotional and intellectual burden of not being able to read. Reading failure is frequently viewed from a fragmented, reductionist perspective. Getting to know and understand the individual's perception of literacy failure is ignored in the…

This bulletin is intended to inform juvenile justice practitioners and other youth service providers about the work of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) in developing and demonstrating a Community Assessment Center (CAC) model, and to increase awareness about some of the challenges associated with its…

Proposes the need to isolate differences in languages and universally define reading failure. (TO)

Aspects of beginning teacher failure in industrial education are explored. The hypothesis proposed is that they are conditioned to be failures by their environment and lack of preparation for lesson presentations. Solutions might be correction of teacher education deficiencies and improvement of conditions in the secondary school environment. (MS)

School officials should investigate possible internal causes of vandalism. Many malicious incidents appear to be caused by children who feel alienated by their failure to achieve academic goals or to develop normal self-esteem. (Author/WM)

Correlations of the four Famous Sayings Test scales with student GPR indicate that only the fear of failure was related to academic achievement. (Author/KM)

Results of the present study show that children by the age of 7 have internalized systematic if not complex rules concerning the conditions under which they may engage in self-gratification. (Author)

The author raises the question, What kind of program can reclaim the alienated reader? It must be a program designed to capture his interest, to assure him of success, and to convince him of his ability. (Author/AS)

Despite the fact that the theory is good, the personnel officer must accept the disappointment that not all employees are yet able to accept its blessings and that not all managers are yet able to dispense it. (Author/EK)

Deals with a program to train poor people for jobs in supermarkets and the reasons why it failed. (EK)

A technique of using puzzle and problem solving to overcome the failure syndrome is discussed. (JM)

Author of Schools Without Failure" provides explanations for some of the possible reasons why some children are unmotivated and fail. Provides a philosophy of how to teach the unmotivated. Suggests need to get the students involved, to teach relevant material, to get students to think, and to avoid measuring students against each other. (DS)