Investigated was arithmetic achievement of fifth grade students under three treatments: immediate knowledge of results, immediate knowledge with token reinforcement, delayed (24 hours) knowledge with no reinforcement. Differences between treatment groups were not significant. (RS)

A professor's one-time observation of gifted and low-achieving students at one school leads to a startling conclusion. The gifted students were excessively anxious and unable to think creatively in the face of new problems; the low-achievers demonstrated high levels of creative problem-solving. (Author/WD)

The high school attendance policy instituted in 1977-78 in Malden (Massachusetts) mandated a failing grade of E for the seventh unexcused absence per quarter in each subject. (Author/JM)

Illustrates the problems involved in college remediation programs by narrating the personal history of a Native American woman who dropped out of a college developmental program in her freshman year. (DD)

Cooperative-learning activities were conducted by 215 business students in randomly assigned small groups. Scores on individual minitests and exams sorted participants into low, middle, and high achievers. Based on the ratio of minitest to exam scores, low achievers benefited most from cooperative learning. (SK)

The abstract nature of algebra causes difficulties for many students. Describes "Real-World Data," an algebra course designed for students with low grades in algebra and provides multidisciplinary experiments (linear functions and variations; quadratic, square-root, and inverse relations; and exponential and periodic variation)…

Conversation with Donna Ogle, past-president of the International Reading Association, about content-area reading issues and strategies for low-achieving students. (PKP)

Former principal relates personal experience in being transferred from an affluent suburban school to a poverty-area school with the lowest test scores in Westchester County (New York). Tells what he did to improve student test scores and some lessons he learned from the experience. (PKP)

Studied possible effects of small classes on achievement using data from Project STAR, a 4-year, large-scale randomized experiment on the effects of class size. There were unambiguous positive effects of small classes on achievement, but no evidence for differentially larger effects of small classes for lower achieving students. (SLD)

Describes how, at some colleges, clemency policies are discounting old failures when calculating students' grade point averages. (EV)

The Reading Recovery intervention program includes procedures for teaching children, recommended materials, a staff development program led by a teacher leader, and a set of interdependent administrative systems. The process involves familiar rereading, a running record analysis, writing a message, putting together a cut-up sentence, and reading a…