Two years after the implementation of Florida's Educational Accountability Act, which mandates statewide competency testing in reading, writing, and arithmetic, the author cites the advantages of the program, refutes criticisms of it and reviews the challenge to it in Federal District court, the Debra P. V. Turlington case. (SJL)

To ensure that foreign dental graduates have the knowledge and professional skills necessary to practice dentistry in the United States, several dental schools have established international student programs. A study to determine effective predictors of the success of foreign dentists at the University of Southern California is reported.…

Three sources of success inhibition are discussed as contributing to problems of success avoidance in a university population. Cases are presented to document these and a series of stages is described leading to the resolution of success inhibition. (JMF)

Describes the Garrison School in New York City's South Bronx and the principal who made it the only school in its district that is meeting or exceeding national achievement standards. (Author/JM)

Suggests that journalism graduate school admission committees should consider such factors as personality characteristics in addition to undergraduate grade point averages and Graduate Record Examination scores. (RL)

The status, function, and education of engineers in Britain and West Germany are compared. Status of the German engineer, engineering education in Germany, the engineer and German society, and the overachieving engineer are discussed. (Author/MLW)

The success of proprietary schools in training and job placement of students, including many college dropouts, is discussed. Note is taken of student interest and motivation, public acceptance, holding power, upgraded faculty, and a justification of profit-making. (JMF)

To examine the possibility that teacher variables affect school integration results, this article reviews the literature on minority children and teacher attitudes and behavior. This literature indicates that biased assessments (unfavorable attitudes, qualitatively inferior instructional behavior, and lower expectations) are made of minority or…

Data on all applicants to U.S. medical schools were analyzed to find how applicant characteristics affected the probability of admission, particularly the function of state of residence separately for majority and minority group applicants. Discriminant analysis and empirical Bayes methods were used, and the differences were discussed. (Author/CTM)

Alarmed by growing criticism, the author presents a defense of American public education, citing evidence that today we educate more students, that students are achieving more, and that the schools are the least expensive and most effective of our social institutions. He urges other educators to join his defense. (SJL)

Describes study to determine the success of university students' behavioral self-control projects. Results indicate that the teaching of self-control principles is easily integrated into personal adjustment classes and can have lasting effects on students' coping skills. (KC)

The challenge is still before Black people to give the kind of moral leadership that would help this nation to see what it is that the poor are struggling with. Black people who become successful must not forget the sufferings of those who made it possible for them to get where they are today. (Author/WI)

A study to find valid indicators of the long-run effects of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (CETA) manpower programs that would meet prime sponsors' needs for short-term feedback indicated that the proxies being used were not strongly correlated with success in CETA programs. (MF)

In a social system that rewards participation instead of quality, student response to academic failure is based on two basic assumptions: (1) participation should guarantee passing, and (2) academic failure equals failure as a person. There are implications for schools, students, staff, and society as a whole. (SB)

An achievement situation describing two children successfully and unsuccessfully performing task in competitive, cooperative, and individualistic reward structures was presented to 400 children across five grade levels. Results showed that different evaluative beliefs about the concepts of ability and reward allocation were associated with each…