This article notes some of the criticisms of government-funded compensatory education programs found in two recent reports: the Rand Report on Federal Programs and the Meissner Report on the status of New Jersey's state-funded remedial programs. (SJL)

Learning disabled adolescents often exhibit psychosocial deficits independent of academic failure and frustration. (PHR)

The behaviors implicit in many boys' sex roles are oppositional to the behaviors required in the student role. The conflict results in the inability of the boy to assume the student role, and may result in his being identified as having an academic and/or behavioral problem. Teacher suggestions are given. (Author/LPG)

This article describes the development of a model that can select students likely to succeed in a professional pharmacy program, and also identify those likely to have trouble that could lead to academic withdrawal. Data are based on students at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. (JMD)

Emphasizes that the failure to recognize the interplay between personality characteristics and situational determinants has masked important individual reaction patterns concerning general satisfaction and boredom at school. (Author/RK)

Children observed a communication game in which two dolls sent messages to each other so that the listener doll could pick out a matching card. Allocations of blame for inadequate communication were functions of age of the child, adequacy of message, correctness of choice, and child's proximity to speaker or listener doll. (Author/MV)

As hypothesized, academic failure produced greater discrepancies between parental expectancy and children's achievement among high socioeconomic status (SES) children than among low SES children, and decreased self-regard among the former but not the latter. Furthermore, relatively low academic achievement was associated with weakened self-concept…

Reactions to ego related performance feedback of 117 internal and external locus of control eighth-grade children were investigated. Both internals and externals were equally pleased by success feedback and displeased by failure, and their competence judgment was influenced by the feedback received. However, internals exhibited more effective…

The relationship between academic failure and poor verbal abilities was studied in young aggressive boys. Results did not indicate a generalized deficit in verbal development among young aggressive boys. However some deficit in mediational use of verbal ability may be present in aggressive boys. (Author/MV)

Notes that there is no set formula, no check list of items, no linear equation that will provide an accurate assessment of organizational capacity for research and development. The possible range of magnitude of predictive efficiency is very great. (Author/AM)

Many changes in schools and teacher training must be made before honest accountability of teachers can become a reality in the reading and language arts instruction of black children. (MB)

An evaluation was made of the behavioral status of nine institutionalized developmentally disabled adolescents at the point of their entry into a community school program and after a 3-4-month follow-up period. (Author)

A combination of inadequate preparation and misperception of the nature of the process of original research contributes to many social science doctoral candidates' inability to complete their dissertations. Instruction in research methodology by an academic librarian with a social sciences background is one solution. (EM)

A Michigan elementary school has developed an unusual six-tier grading structure to accommodate the needs of children at different stages of development. They provide half-step classrooms that allow students to move forward in school at a rate that allows success. (MD)

A school board member in Sarasota County, Florida, interviewed 30 failing students at five high schools to find out why they were failing. She concluded that more caring attitudes by school staff are needed to help these students to succeed in school. (TE)