Americans are beginning to recognize that many of the nation's high schools are in crisis, as policymakers, business leaders, and celebrities call attention to the country's low graduation rates. But the dropout problem, although severe, is only one indicator of the trouble plaguing the country's secondary schools. Because too many students are…

Each year, thousands of students graduate high school academically unprepared for college. As a result, approximately one-third of entering postsecondary students require remedial or developmental work before entering college-level courses. However, little is known about the causal impact of remediation on student outcomes. At an annual cost of…

The American Association of Community Colleges conducted a study that examined policies, practices, and trends of remedial education in community colleges. The study was designed to gather detailed information on remedial education in community colleges at a national level. Over 400 institutions returned survey instruments and the analysis of the…

The Remediation Plus System for reading, spelling, and writing is based on phonemic awareness training, linguistic gymnastics, and Orton Gillingham methodology. It employs multisensory, systematic phonics and "exhaustively thorough" lesson plans. The system contains a training manual, a testing manual, three training videos, a…

Examined and evaluated are remedial approaches to children's educational handicaps which are based on three conceptions that identify process dysfunction, adverse life experience, and experience deficits as causes. (Author/MC)

The General Aptitude Test Battery, used by many state employment services as a counseling tool, has been criticized as an unfair screening device. A less restrictive policy of pretest coaching and retesting, combined with action research on the effects of remedial education on aptitudes scores is suggested, rather than a return to subjective…

Evaluation problems in a college mathematics course for students of the social and life sciences are discussed. (MM)

Describes learning disabilities of five children, principle teaching techniques used, and incorporation of linguistic principles in teaching the program. (MM)

It was not known what recommendations were being offered by school psychologists to the teachers and parents of handicapped children. The investigator completed a survey and received 3,700 psycho-educational recommendations to aid such children. The concepts were classified, edited, and compiled into a manual for trainees and experienced…

Two short reports on two-year college mathematics: a summary of a basic mathematics course and a survey of remedial mathematics courses. (MM)

This paper describes a method for selecting tests to identify educational deficiencies of incoming university freshmen. On the basis of pilot study results, the Stanford High School Reading and Advanced Mathematics Computation Tests were administered to the population of incoming freshmen. Sample results closely approximated population results.…

Presented is a case study of a 5-year-old girl, originally seen as disruptive, deprived, disturbed, and possibly retarded, which suggests that an ordinary remedial teacher, with some diagnostic help from consultants, can function successfully as the primary therapist for the child with difficulties in learning. (Author/KW)