Decries the discrimination accorded to Ivy League football players by Pro Football owners and suggests corrective measures including a Head Start program involving preseason coaching for Ivy Leaguers, formation of a Department of Recreational Studies headed by Ara Parseghian or Darrell Royal, and a remedial course for punters during Christmas…

High schools spend incredible amounts of time and resources toward preparing students for high school exit exams. A predicament arises when some students continue failing the exam and are in danger of not receiving a high school diploma. This article describes 5 components of an exit exam remediation program through which to equip and empower…

As scholars continue to debate over the specific skills underprepared students need in order to complete their course of study, perhaps the focus should be on how to tap into students' independent thought processes and encourage students to utilize independent thought to contribute to interdependent groups. Placing value on students' independent…

This article discusses an educational practice that has been introduced in Rwanda, which aims to bring back into the formal education system children who are out-of-school or unschooled, even though they are over the legal enrolment age. The authors analyse this intensive programme, designed for children at that age and adapted to their daily…

Binary logistic regression analyses were performed on institutional data from a large urban community college in order to identify predictors of performance in a content course (psychology) that had high literacy demands. It was found that students who completed college English were more likely to pass the content course than students with…

This was a mixed methods study that examined the developmental education program at an urban public Maryland community college. The data were collected from interviews with a former English Chair, a former Math Chair, and the Director of Institutional Research. Each was selected because of his and her expertise. Data were also collected from one…

When scholars write about their research in writing programs' archives, they often face the ethical question of whether to name the administrators who were involved in documents. The author identifies and provides examples of three basic orientations to this issue, which he calls overt-historical, covert-qualitative, and hybrid-institutional.…

This article presents a teacher's suggestions for helping poor readers. (PD)

An analysis was made of the factors associated with the condition of developmental dyslexia in pupils who were tutored in a Title III-funded learning disability center. During the 2-year period from September 1967 through June 1969, approximately 200 pupils were involved each year in an intensive diagnosis and remediation program. The ratio of…

Contends that the City University of New York, during its open admissions period (1969-1976), employed a hidden tracking system to make proletarian students conform to the capitalist system. (DD)

Administered individual intelligence tests to 52 students in remedial programs in a university setting. The individual profiles obtained contained significantly greater variability than would be expected. Concludes that students with high intersubtest variability are likely to need more individually tailored programs than do intellectual peers who…

Colleges should provide positive action and remediation for minority students rather than providing leniency for these students. (RC)

Describes a program at the Juvenile Achievement Center in Waco, Texas, that serves students rejected in regular school programs because of overt behavior problems, social maladjustment, academic deficiencies, and poor self-concepts. (Author/JF)

Very briefly described is a program at Cleveland State University which places marginal students in classes to improve their reading and academic skills without labeling them as special'' students. (Author)