Considers the characteristics of developmental educators, trends and pressures for change in the field, and ways of responding to changes and possible futures. Suggests that developmental educators build on their flexibility and adaptability, work together, maintain a student orientation, and strive toward professionalism. (DMM)

Describes how writing faculty at an eastern state college recruit, train, and offer professional support to volunteer basic writing instructors. (HTH)

Presents some salient points of Jim Ysseldyke and Bob Algozzine (professors of special education) regarding assessment of and decision making about learning disabilities. (HOD)

The internal consistency reliability, concurrent validity, and stability of the Cooperative Preschool Inventory in English and Spanish editions were examined for monolingual English and monolingual Spanish Hispanic preschool pupils. The finding support the reliability, validity, and stability of both editions as used as well as the comparability…

The governor of South Carolina provides information about that state's Education Improvement Act of l984 and explains how it brought about educational reform. (FL)

A 10-day aquatics program for learning disabled children with hand-eye coordination problems and low self-esteem is described. Activities for each session (including relaxation exercises) are listed. (CL)

Describes the Abbott Union School and its program for traumatized and neglected adolescents. Reproduces a short novel written by one of the students. (CRH)

Describes a technique for use in detecting and correcting spelling difficulties. (FL)

Examines Title I (now Chapter I) programs, specifically their problems, the reasons for those problems, and their future. (FL)

This paper examines the parents', staff members', and students' satisfaction with the intersession activities of a year-round elementary school. "Intersession" is defined as the period of time when students receive remediation in problem areas. The school cited in the report was chosen from a district that had recently implemented a…

This paper reports on the problem of disproportionately high remediation rates among African-American and Mexican American college students in the California State University (CSU) system. In response to this need, it is reported that CSU began a program of having incoming students complete any necessary remedial courses within their first year of…

Forest Grove High School (FGHS) is a suburban school in Oregon that implemented an extensive remediation program to increase the mathematics scores of its learners taking the state-mandated competency examination, the Oregon Statewide Assessment Test (OSAT). Learners who failed at least two of the mathematics sections of the 1998 OSAT, taken when…

Based on the premise that the missing piece of reading instruction is code knowledge, this book is about how to teach a code and the best way for children to learn it. The code used in the book maps 26 symbols to nearly 40 sounds--there are many different ways to spell most sounds, and many symbols stand for more than one sound. Following an…

This report presents a summary of responses of developmental English students who participated in a telephone survey conducted in early 2001. The respondents had enrolled in a developmental English course in the fall 2000 semester and did not return to Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) for the following spring semester. The primary…