Discusses some ways to help in training unskilled, marginal workers including explaining job importance, emphasizing critical points, allowing mistakes, keeping training sessions brief, using positive reinforcement, and rewarding progress. (JOW)

Reflects on the impoverished conditions in which many children live, through a discussion of Dickens'"A Christmas Carol" and Dewey's vision for education. Insists on the need for a more caring spirit to eradicate ignorance and address the plight of these children. (SK)

This report presents findings on the implementation of parental choice options from the first year of the National Longitudinal Study of "No Child Left Behind" (NLS-"NCLB") and the Study of State Implementation of Accountability and Teacher Quality Under "No Child Left Behind" (SSI-"NCLB"). The report uses…

Under the leadership of Tony Blair New Labour committed itself to raise standards, tackle educational failure and use education to combat disadvantage. This paper examines New Labour's approaches to school improvement, particularly the origins and enactment of "zero tolerance" strategies, the different groups of schools identified as…

One of the defining characteristics of countries, such as the United Kingdom, with low social mobility are stark, persistent gaps in the school results between children from deprived backgrounds and their more advantaged counterparts. Far from acting as the great social leveler, education systems can perpetuate inequalities, and enable the…

Business expansion in the 1960s and its associated international strategies have meant that many Japanese company employees and their families were sent abroad on long-term assignments. The children who accompanied their parents on such assignments and then returned to Japan were first described as "educational refugees" and were…

There is a wide variety of universities, university campuses and university courses in Australia available to those interested in pursuing a higher education degree. This paper examines the impact of increasing competition for entrance to university on the educational outcomes for students from the government school sector. Using Melbourne as a…

THIS INVENTORY WAS DEVELOPED TO IDENTIFY EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS IN THE TEN RACINE, WISCONSIN, SCHOOLS ELIGIBLE FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT, TITLE I FUNDS. THE ASSESSMENT CAN ALSO SERVE TO EVALUATE THE MOST PRESSING STUDENT NEEDS AND TO DEVELOP TITLE I PROGRAMS. THE INVENTORY CONSISTS OF A QUESTIONNAIRE AND A RATING…

This study deals with the cognitive nature of educational disadvantage. It operationalizes generic requirements for school achievement, and finds them to be derivatives of the analytic conceptual style. Many children from low income homes, however, demonstrate a relational conceptual style. Conceptual styles are found to be effective predictors of…

Court suits bearing on the placement of children in classes for the educable mentally retarded are surveyed, since in the past several years accusations have been made that these special education classes are used as dumping grounds for disadvantaged and minority group children. (HMD)

This paper examines certain facets of Canada's sub-literate population, stating causes of sub-literacy, raising some questions bearing on basic re-education and considering the extent to which the deficiency can, or should, be corrected as a matter of public responsibility. (Author/MF)

Intensive remedial programs in six major cities upgraded the educational skills of military rejectees. A majority of the trainees qualified for military enlistment, other training projects, or jobs. (CH)

Author argues that education should encourage children to be as diverse as possible. Not only should their learning processes be diverse, but also their end results. (Editor/MR)