Describes the Charlottesville (Virginia) Volunteer Tutorial, a one-on-one tutorial program that promotes the literacy development of young children and involves a wide range of community volunteers. Suggests that the program offers one model of an affordable, alternative form of early intervention. (SR)

Presents a history of higher education in Jordan and describes the kingdom's community college system. Details the system's development and its academic programs. Summarizes major concerns, including the comprehensive exit examination, remediation, community service, and unemployment of graduates. Points to articulation as the colleges' most…

According to this literature review, school practices such as placement of at-risk students in alternative, nontraditional programs, individualized counseling, low student-teacher ratio, heavy vocational emphasis, and peer tutoring successfully lower dropout rates, whereas remediation, retention in grade, tracking, and suspension only exacerbate…

Explores implications for national and international action of several educational research studies on the linkages between poverty and limited educational opportunities. Suggests that valuable information is available in rarely read research reports. Describes different research studies on positive discrimination programs for poor schools,…

Supports the use of the applied linguistics technique of error analysis (i.e., charting and analyzing patterns in language errors) in developmental writing instruction. Argues that error enables teachers to diagnose the cognitive strategies and processes used by students in writing. Discusses teaching strategies and the approach's limitations.…

Argues that the City University of New York's recent reversal of its policy of providing remedial instruction to those needing it was accomplished despite substantial opposition and without regard for the human or financial consequences, with little understanding of academic freedom, and under the influence of conservative policymakers wishing to…

Presents a case study showing how traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects a 7-year-old child, his family, and the school. Through Bob's experiences, specific components of a home-school remediation plan and the need for collaboration and support between home and school are discussed. General instructional implications for TBI are explored. (Author/CR)

Suggests that there are three ways of taking in information: internalizing inert information, forming activated ignorance, or achieving activated knowledge. Explains that only activated knowledge leads the learner, by implication, to more knowledge, and that seeking the logic of things can lead to discovery of activated knowledge. (NB)

Presents the responses of six of the leaders in developmental education to questions about the future of the field. Their responses point to three main trends: mainstreaming the developmental courses into college-level, graduation-credit programs; removal of developmental education from four-year institutions; and increased professionalism of…

A case study of an alternative middle school for at-risk students indicates that small, under-resourced schools cannot be expected to successfully serve students who have been rejected by the mainstream school system. Small alternative schools providing small class sizes and extra support for students require more, not less, funding. Commitment…

In order to explore the differences in engagement levels between entering and returning community college students, the researcher analyzed 13,300 surveys from the 2007 Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE) pilot data set utilizing a quantitative methodology. This study focused on analyzing engagement levels of entering and returning…

Significant progress has been made over the past four decades in enrolling more students from historically underrepresented groups in U.S. colleges and universities. While total enrollment increased by about 40% overall, minority student enrollment increased by 146%, with Hispanic undergraduate enrollment greatly outpacing other racial/ethnic…

This analysis looks at proposals for the 1997 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. These proposals include graduation-contingent aid providing "incentives" for completion; creation of federal student aid block grants to reduce the federal government's role and provide states and institutions more flexibility in awarding student…

Bay Mills Community College (BMCC), in Michigan, is the state's only tribally controlled community college, offering vocational degrees, a pre-health program, and transfer programs. As part of an evaluation of its developmental mathematics (DM) curriculum, BMCC undertook a survey of the 27 other community colleges in the American Indian Higher…

Researchers have long sought to enhance the academic achievement of low income, minority children. To understand adolescents' achievement motivation and persistence, investigations must focus on both the contexts of achievement and the characteristics of adolescent participants. In line with this aim, this study investigated a group counseling…