Addresses the problem of why the millions of hard-core illiterate American adults are not being reached by adult basic education programs. Three factors are cited as frequent reasons for nonparticipation: (1) age, (2) satisfaction with present situation, and (3) poverty. (JOW)

Discusses a procedure in which chemistry students performing in the lowest decile on the first hour exam are advised that they can transfer to another chemistry course designed for underprepared students. (MLH)

Assuming a correlation between library use and academic achievement, colleges must foster greater library use and must make students and faculty aware of the importance and validity of library instruction in information-handling skills. (DC)

Since the release of the 1998 publication "Good Teaching Matters," the colleagues at the Education Trust have been asked to make hundreds of presentations around the country on the difference that teachers make. Virtually everywhere, the response is the same: heads nod in agreement. Almost nobody, it seems, disputes the importance of…

A remedial program that has yielded notable results is described for high risk college freshmen. (PG)

A major 6-year program in the Chicago schools has proven that the traditional gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students can be systematically and substantially eliminated. The Chicago Child Parent Center program is described. (Author)

The results of this study indicate that teachers more adequately understood the characteristics and needs of disadvantaged children, but that deeply held beliefs were probably not challenged nor permanently changed. (DM)

The director of Extension Studies at Liverpool University evaluates the Russell Report

The author discusses Christopher Jencks' book, Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America. (PG)

While conclusive evidence of improvement of current elementary social studies textbooks does not exist at this moment, there is evidence of reform in the content, if not the readability of texts, used by disadvantaged students. (DM)

One of a series of articles which will deal with non-school influences on learning in school and the limitations these influences impose on the ability of schools, teachers, and school districts to make a significant impact on the education of low-income children. (DM)

The experimental Mother-Child Home Program, aimed at the prevention of educational disadvantaged," was shown to be effective in repeated studies away from the home base of the Verbal Interaction Project. (Author/SP)

Describes how disadvantaged children can be given a chance at academic success through development of their creative talents. (SP)