The purpose of this study was to determine what essential skills and spelling strategies first grade students use when spelling grade level and above grade level words and to determine whether students actually use strategies taught during spelling instruction. Eight first-grade students of varying spelling performance levels, including…

Between 1990 and 1997, 159 schools in New York were classified as Schools under Registration Review (SURR), but by 1997 54 of these schools had improved enough to no longer be classified as SURR. Seven of the schools had reorganized or closed, and 98, 94 of which were in New York City, were still classified as SURR. An audit was conducted to…

At the March 2003 meeting, SBESE adopted the provisions identified by the School Finance Review Commission and incorporated these into the MFP formula resolution submitted to the legislature. During the 2003 Regular Session of the Legislature, the formula was introduced as House Concurrent Resolution number 235 (HCR 235) and subsequently approved.…

The teaching of science to the underachiever is comprehensive, challenging, and difficult. Suggestions are made concerning methods of instruction that should be employed and the importance of recognizing and understanding the underachiever. (DF)

The findings of interviews in 30 selected business organizations indicated that there are job opportunities of an office-clerical nature for low-achieving students. (Author)

Paper analyzes some sociological characteristics of probation students. (Author)

Discussed is a unit for teaching area concepts of plane figures to low achievers in a laboratory setting. (CT)

Examines and illustrates a teaching method which corrects one-shot thinking and teaches remedial students to think in careful, sequential steps using diagrams and visual aids. Contrasts the method to Skinner's concept of shaping. Reviews study results showing that students exposed to the method demonstrated improvements in reading, achievement…

Reports that an investigation into the relationship between reading difficulty and maladjustment indicated that a significantly greater number of poor readers than normal readers were antisocial. Notes that the higher incidence of maladjustment was found in those poor readers with perceptual motor problems. (FL)

Test results on the effects of achievement outcome on causal attributions were determined using a stabilometer performance as the criterion task. (JD)