Estimates proportions and changes in the incidence of suicide attempts in Denmark. There were high increases among adolescents, but the increase was due to the fact that more and more men attempted suicide; suggests as a new phenomenon more male than female suicide attempters. (Author/ABB)

Academic success groups were implemented for middle school students with failing grades in which time management and study skills were emphasized. Students set their own goals, invited classroom teachers to respond to questions, and examined roles of ancillary school personnel. (CL)

This report addresses the complexity of problems associated with traditional comprehensive high schools. It examines why, despite repeated calls for reform, and various efforts aimed at reform, evidence suggests that what transpires for students inside the high school classroom remains relatively impervious to change. A picture of the terrain of…

This study investigated children's responses to failed attempts at reaching possible and impossible goals, and their beliefs about the efficacy of wishing as a magical solution in such situations. Preschoolers were presented with failure scenarios in three different formats: a standard picture book presentation, scenarios enacted in real life by…

A model of achievement behavior incorporates the findings that attributions to ability and task were associated with high expectancies following success and low expectancies following failure, and that attributions to effort and luck were associated with low expectancies following success and high expectancies following failure. (Author/KM)

Reducing failure in the schools is the main task investigated in this interview. (BB)

A well-educated teacher equipped with diverse reading materials is the best single answer to the reading problem. (Author)

One in a series of nine articles in a section entitled, "Electronic Computer Program and Accounting Machine Procedures.

Presents an analytical framework based on a threefold classification--unequivocal failure, "satisficing," and unequivocal success--and four basic role climates--apathetic, frustrating, tense, and tranquil--that is applied to the elementary school principalship. (Author/WD)

A teacher recounts the case of a creative child who was misdiagnosed as brain damaged and endured failure because of a rigid system that did not allow him to demonstrate his insights and critical thinking. The boy eventually took his own life. (CL)

Suggesting that creativity is a useful frame of reference for some aspects of counseling and psychotherapy, the author considers situational and internal blockages to creative activity and discusses psychologically oriented conditions which favor creativity. (CL)

When correlations between actual university classroom cheating behavior (multiple-choice answer copying) and pretest estimates of success, confidence, and test importance were studied answer copying correlated positively with estimates of success. Confidence in these estimates of success also correlated positively with answer copying, while…

Tribal problems and white harassment combined to end the weekly publication in 1834. (KS)