A high school teacher recounts his own literacy journey from a young child with an auditory perception problem, to a school-hating student, to a semi-literate Marine in Viet Nam, to a teacher of persons with disabilities. He notes that his literacy journey during the early years was characterized by immaturity, avoidance, and self doubt. He grew…

This paper provides a summary of a comprehensive evaluation of the Kentucky statewide Extended School Services (ESS) program. The Extended School Services (ESS) program was established in 1990 as part of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA). Designed specifically to address the needs of Kentucky's at-risk student population, ESS is an…

In this article some problems, such as the tests employed to assess motivation, are considered together with suggestions for developing an instrument more in accordance with the achievement motivation theory as represented by the McClelland-Atkinson tradition. (Author/RK)

Conservation and conservation education are critically examined, their definitions, foundations, principles, concepts, weaknesses, failures, and successes. It is concluded educators must first educate themselves, or environmental education will fail the same way conservation education has failed to educate Americans to the intricate…

The author feels that most innovative teachers are unsuccessful because they are captives of cultural forces which prevent them from benefitting from their classroom experiences. (AN)

Examines the role of linguistics in teaching Black children to read. (MM)

The feelings and the personal and learning problems of the child with a language disability which are concomitant with a fragile ego are presented, to give parents a feeling of the nature and effect of their child's disability. (Author/KW)

Typescript excerpts from group counseling sessions suggest that schools of education need to pitch their teaching and testing at higher cognitive levels. Giving primary attention to the bare knowledge or memory level is not only ineffective but also an unnecessary source of resentment among students. (Author)

School and College Ability Tests (SCAT), the Omnibus Personality Inventory, and questionnaire data collected indicated that, as compared to persisting students, voluntary withdrawals had higher verbal ability and were more intellectually oriented. Voluntary withdrawals had significantly higher SCAT scores than the failures and the female…

Suggests that a partial cause of student reading difficulty may be lack of comprehension of the process of reading and proposes that teacher explanation might help solve the problem. (RW)