This paper summarizes themes arising from a symposium on the future of developmental education in the United States. In recent years, public financial support of developmental education has been declining and is projected to decline further. Participants in a symposium on developmental education agreed on some trends that are emerging.…

This paper describes a successful learning community and curricular experiments with basic writing implemented on a college campus as an example of curricular structures that enable faculty and staff to work together to address students' individual needs. The paper begins by discussing learning communities as effective and flexible institutional…

This model permits the identification and classification of a variety of counseling programs or counseling approaches and thereby serves as a means of categorizing and describing the potential activities of the counselor in a variety of settings. The three dimensions described are the intervention target, purpose, and method. (Author)

Describes how New York City's unusual compensatory education program helps poor students become good students. (Author/DN)

Hunter College has set up a Reading Resource Center where students receive individualized help in specific problem areas not covered in their reading classes and where teachers can find materials either for their own edification or for use in the classroom. (Author)

Describes reforms at Johnson C. Smith University, a private black institution in Charlotte, North Carolina. (PB)

Academic achievement, anxiety, conformity, and self concept were compared for 40 learning disabled children (aged 8 to 13 years) and 40 average achieving children (aged 8 to 13 years) before and after their enrollment in summer camp programs. (GW)

Described are the rationale and organization of a remedial program for children with the Visual/Auditory-Verbal syndrome who are unable to convert visual-sound symbols (written words) into their appropriate sounds. (KW)

The Federal-State-local, public-private right to read effort is evaluated by the former acting director of the Right to Read National Reading Center. (JF)

The new director of the Right to Read Program answers criticisms of that program by its former director. (JF)

It was demonstrated that evening students will voluntarily participate in a reading-study skills program, and that participation is accompanied by changes in the direction of improvement in academic performance. (Author/EB)

Groups symptoms, and suggests resources and energy be concentrated on educational and psychological intervention, rather than on causes. (NH)