A school district located in the southern region of the United States is implementing the Reading Recovery (RR) Program in 10 elementary schools. The RR program is an initiative to help elementary schools improve student learning, especially in the area of reading. A broad literature review framed this quantitative investigation. The overall…

Boys may follow various developmental pathways that lead to increasingly disruptive and delinquent behavior. To most parents, teachers, youth workers, mental health professionals, and juvenile justice practitioners, the development of disruptive and delinquent behavior in boys may appear erratic and unpredictable. This bulletin summarizes…

The report provides a historical perspective of the Standards of Academic Progress (SOAP) performance and compares changes in fall term 1994 and fall term 1998 at Miami-Dade Community College (Florida). The Standards of Academic Progress (SOAP) monitor student academic performance in order to identify students in need of academic intervention. Two…

This paper explores the issues and possible etiologies associated with Non-Organic Failure To Thrive (NOFTT), a syndrome in which a child's weight gain deviates from an established pattern to become dramatically less than norms for age and sex. The case study of a 4-year-old named Lexis complements the literature review. Lexis remained small and…

Teachers are trained to adjust curriculum and give extra help to students who struggle to learn. However, teachers are not as prepared to deal with students who resist learning yet seem to have the ability to do well in school and apparently choose not to complete assignments or participate in class activities, consequently choosing to earn…

Studies are reviewed that report the prediction of rehabilitation failure from personality measures. Related research is discussed that suggest the dynamics underlying a key concept, the "hypochondriacally organized personality" which is identifiable from the Rorschach anatomy response percentage. (Author)

The purpose of this paper is to examine the question of student needs and the role that the "Our Schools" Project plays in their satisfaction. (Author/RK)

From ten studies made in the last 50 years, it is shown that the figure for serious maladjustment is 6 to 7 percent. Analyzes four longitudinal studies to exhibit the incidence of maladjustment, qualitative differences by sex and social class, and the relation between learning failure and emotional disturbance. (RJ)

Critically analyzes explanations of reading difficulty and research methods used to investigate reading difficulty. (Author)

Study suggests that affective involvement may be positively related to academic success at the adult level while hostility may be a by-product of non-success. (Author)

Defensiveness was the major reaction of students subjected to failure on an important examination; their self ideal-self discrepancy scores changed in a downward direction after they were given papers containing failing marks. (Editor)

A successful program must be able to offer participants the jobs which they consider superior to their presently available alternatives. (Editor)