Ressel shows how providing technology education to special needs students can reaffirm belief in technology education and revitalize desire to teach. Smith suggests that breaking down processes into special steps allows these students to be successful. (JOW)

Discusses a study at Florida State University concerning the failure level of college physics students who previously graduated from a Florida community college compared with students who had not attended a community college. Suggests reasons for the failure level. (MVL)

The level of comprehension monitoring and the level of reading comprehension in 36 low- and 20 high-achieving fourth graders were investigated. Results indicated that the level of monitoring and the level of comprehension were related, a fact that helps clarify differences in low- and high-achieving readers' comprehension. (SLD)

Confronted by a disturbing dropout rate and low student achievement, the Newfoundland (Canada) government is attempting to rationalize organizational restructuring and curriculum reform based on a centralized core academic curriculum aimed at college entrance. This article argues for an expanded, hegemonic curriculum that is organic to the…

Effects of instructional complexity and role reciprocity within classwide peer tutoring (CWPT) programs were examined with a total of 119 students (learning disabled, low achieving, or normally achieving) in grades 2 through 5. Students in all CWPT conditions outperformed controls on a reading fluency measure; however only those in CWPT with role…

The principal plays an important role in the success of student assistance teams, which devise suitable interventions for low-achieving students. A survey of Midwest principals valued these teams, despite certain problems: inadequate time for meetings during the school day and teachers' imperfect implementation of suggested interventions.…

Interviews with 17 students in Foundation-level General National Vocational Qualifications courses identified their most important issue as moving from disaffection to acceptance as postsecondary students. Relationships with teachers were the most significant factor in building their confidence and overcoming past schooling failure. (Contains 39…

Describes goals, advantages, standards, and missing components of state accountability systems. (25 references) (PKP)

Describes how teachers can use clinical interviewing techniques to bring out the mathematician in at-risk students. Illustrates typical aspects of the mathematical experiences of low-achieving students, and reveals how the teacher-clinician's use of interviewing strategies uncovered each child's thinking. (ASK)

This study used hierarchical linear modeling to predict first grade students' peer acceptance, classroom engagement, and sense of school belonging from measures of normative classroom teacher-student support and individual teacher-student support. Participants were 509 (54.4% male) ethnically diverse, first grade children attending one of three…

Simulated data were used to demonstrate that groups formed by imposing cut-points based on either discrepancy or low-achievement definitions of learning disabilities (LD) are unstable over time. Similar problems were demonstrated in longitudinal data from the Connecticut Longitudinal Study, where 39% of the children designated as having LD in…

The fact that a third of all African Americans now live in suburbs might suggest how far we have come since the pre-Brown days. But most African Americans live in predominantly Black suburbs, where property values are lower than in neighboring White suburbs, and where the public schools are funded by a lower tax base. After presenting a national…

This research attempted to discover the degree to which performance on assessments that have no direct consequences for individual students can be attributed to students' motivational states in addition to their underlying achievement in the domains measured. If such findings were reliable, it would allow us to correct underestimates of domain…

Although researchers have clearly connected dropping out of school to prolonged low achievement, to date, effective teaching practices are largely absent from the milieu of interventions and programs that are employed by schools to address dropout prevention. As such, effective instructional design and delivery as a focus for keeping students with…

Through multiple logistic regression modeling, this article explores the relative importance of risk and protective factors associated with learning disabilities (LD). A representative national sample of 6- to 17-year-old students (N = 1,268) was drawn by random stratification and classified by the presence versus absence of LD in reading,…