Praises Peter Johnston's thoughtful, constructive use of the term dyslexia in his article that appeared in the May 1985, "Harvard Educational Review." (HOD)

Investigates the relationship between five- and seven-year-old children's communicative performance and their level of understanding about message ambiguity and communication failure. Level of understanding about communication was assessed by asking the child to ascribe blame for communication failure following an ambiguous message and to judge…

School systems that rushed to join the computer age are now finding that their expensive acquisitions do not always provide more learning opportunities for students. Reasons include the lack of properly trained teachers and inadequate software. Positive aspects for the use of computers in learning are also examined. (RM)

A community-oriented treatment program was successful according to its clinical objectives for deinstitutionalizing psychiatric patients but failed at the systems level. Responsibility is traced to developing a community-oriented program in an institutionally oriented system. Suggestions are made to ensure success through three steps, including…

This article concerns a study of students who were admitted and registered in classes during late registration. These students were compared to a control group of students who were admitted and registered regularly. The study showed that the study group performed below the control group. (Author)

Stresses the important roles played by teachers and administrators in solving reading problems and generally improving reading at the secondary level. (RB)

Reports of social conflict and failure within organizational planned change are few. This study, based on 15 months of participant observation, historical analyses, and informal interviews, depicts a three-year intervention into a commercial enterprise. The state of the organization and the strategies by which change was introduced are analyzed.…

There are numerous reasons why students fail in science. These include lack of interest, truancy, failure to do homework, lack of organizational skills, lack of test taking skills, do not study or lack study skills, cannot comprehend the text, cannot make connections between what they learn in school and the real world, and teaching quality. This…

One theme of current research about higher education students of mathematics concerns those who fail. At our institution, some of the entrants are students who have previously failed in mathematics; others come to us with a comparatively weak mathematical background. Most of these students go on to become confident and effective mathematicians,…

A study explored the holistic nature of reading failure from the perspective of those who have endured the emotional and intellectual burden of not being able to read. Reading failure is frequently viewed from a fragmented, reductionist perspective. Getting to know and understand the individual's perception of literacy failure is ignored in the…

This bulletin is intended to inform juvenile justice practitioners and other youth service providers about the work of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) in developing and demonstrating a Community Assessment Center (CAC) model, and to increase awareness about some of the challenges associated with its…

Proposes the need to isolate differences in languages and universally define reading failure. (TO)

Aspects of beginning teacher failure in industrial education are explored. The hypothesis proposed is that they are conditioned to be failures by their environment and lack of preparation for lesson presentations. Solutions might be correction of teacher education deficiencies and improvement of conditions in the secondary school environment. (MS)

School officials should investigate possible internal causes of vandalism. Many malicious incidents appear to be caused by children who feel alienated by their failure to achieve academic goals or to develop normal self-esteem. (Author/WM)

Correlations of the four Famous Sayings Test scales with student GPR indicate that only the fear of failure was related to academic achievement. (Author/KM)