To make a case against recently passed legislation in Georgia banning social promotion, one must start by examining the state's rationale for the decision that based on the perceived views teachers have on the issue. Research suggests, however, that teachers hold contradictory opinions concerning the use of standardized tests for high-stakes…

Children that grow slowly experience poorer psychomotor development and tend to have delayed school enrollment and lower scores on cognitive tests. Rural households in developing countries often are unable to protect their consumption against temporary income shocks, such as droughts. Such income shocks have been shown to have negative effects on…

One area of research that has important implications for improving the education of students at risk of academic failure is concerned with resilient students, or those students who succeed in school despite the presence of adverse conditions. In education, conceptual and empirical work on resilience has gained recognition as a framework for…

This paper offers a theoretically grounded template for analyzing the root causes of individual performance problems in school, work, or personal pursuits. There are four basic reasons why individuals fail to perform as desired: they don't know what to do (communication problem); they don't know how to do it (knowledge problem); they don't want to…

This report presents the results of a workshop on race, gender, class, and student achievement. The workshop was called to help set the nation's educational-research agenda with regard to social-status distinctions. Invited panelists made recommendations about how race, gender, and class should be conceptualized and measured in educational…

This analysis identified school districts in Michigan that, using a definition most parents would find quite reasonable, have failed to meet their fundamental mission. Using data reported by the school districts themselves and the state Department of Education, the report details the number of such districts, the number of students in those…

The National Longitudinal Transition Study (NLTS) provided the first national pictureof the lives of youth with disabilities in their high school years and in their transition to early adulthood. NLTS analyses from the early 1990s showed tremendous variation across disability categories in the experiences and achievements of youth, yet the…

Twenty secondary math and science teachers from a large urban school district in Texas were recently asked: Why don't English language learners succeed in school? Their answers included: students feel isolated because of language, students get mixed up with gangs, and students do not value education. This article compares student-attributed and…

Who the reluctant client is, what the dimensions and causes of reluctance are, and why counselors tend to fail in helping such clients are points of discussion. The main focus, however, of this article is on what the strategies are for dealing with the reluctant client. (Author)

When the fear of failure was greater than the need for achievement, subjects chose majors with either a low or high probability of success. When need for achievement was the greater of the motives, subjects chose majors with a low or high probability of success when the self was used as the standard of judgment but chose majors with an…

Following several women scholars, I should like to review the discouragement, cruelty (both mental and physical), and discrimination suffered by males at school, where females excel at least through college, and to present proof that young males have repeatedly rebelled against sexist educators. (Author)

Examined the nature of teacher responses to preschoolers' problem and preacademic behavior as a function of sex. Teachers generally responded more frequently to boys. (ST)

Reports results of a 2-year study designed to identify student characteristics and factors associated with success in an associate degree agricultural program. (SB)

This study concentrates on the comparative academic risk'' of new freshmen entering college with a history of psychiatric problems and attempts to isolate any symptoms or behavior patterns that contribute significantly to increased academic risk. (Author/RK)

Author looks at behavioral objectives in terms of how well they solve classic educational probelms. There are problems of individual differences, problems of failure, problems of content and process, problems of goals, and problems of human beings in institutional settings. (Author/CB)