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Holladay, Jennifer; Lockette, Tim – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2009
Few of today's teachers can remember an economic situation quite like the one individuals now face. To find analogies for the collapse of the housing bubble and the subsequent credit crisis, they have to search not their memories but their textbooks. "The Great Gatsby" and "The Grapes of Wrath" suddenly make more sense now. What will happen next?…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Coping, Money Management, Failure
Funk, Hal D. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1969
Condensed from "Illinois Schools Journal, XLIX, (Summer 1969), 130-133.
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Failure, Dropouts, Failure
Fremon, Suzanne S. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1972
The factors are, according to the author, financial ineptitude by the administration and the refusal of the teachers to accept responsibility. (SP)
Descriptors: Educational Problems, Experimental Schools, Failure, Financial Problems
Bachman, Jerald; And Others – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1972
Article asks the question Should the Anti-Dropout Campaign" be Curtailed? Suggests that dropping out of high school is overrated as a problem. (Author)
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Martin, Robert E. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1969
Condensed from "New York State Education, LVI (May 1969), 22-23, 34-35.
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Failure, Library Materials, Literature
Savage, David – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1981
Argues that past federal efforts to assist the disadvantaged through categorical aid programs like Title I have failed because they fragmented the school program and created bureaucratic overload. Sees the real hope for poor children in quality principals and teachers. Condensed from "The New Republic", April 18, 1981, p20-23. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Categorical Aid, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth