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)

Male and female undergraduates rated their ability, amount of preparation, task difficulty, and their initial confidence (expectation) before they began an important examination. Subsequently they attributed causality for the examination outcome by rating the importance of factors involving ability, preparation, task difficulty, and luck as…

Described are four types of problem families who are said to not be suitable for the home program approach to helping children with learning disabilities. (DB)

Article asks the question Should the Anti-Dropout Campaign" be Curtailed? Suggests that dropping out of high school is overrated as a problem. (Author)

Suggests ways in which counselor can relate to those whose personalities and failures make them difficult to "like . (CJ)