Examines whether retention continues to be embraced by North Carolina teachers. Surveys (1) how many children were promoted but considered (by teachers) not ready for promotion; and (2) reasons given for retention and/or lack of readiness for first grade. Notes that as many children were retained as were deemed not ready for first grade but were…

Examines changes in teachers' understandings of developmentally appropriate practices in early childhood education after attending a two-week summer institute that used a teaching case as an assessment tool. Finds that the institute impacted all attendees in a positive and statistically significant manner. (RS)

Concludes that the tutorial setting may have more positive consequences for students' adjustment to the larger academic setting than traditional learning environments. (Author)

Examines the effect of inconsistent messages on the teacher-student relationship. (RB)

Suggests that dropout and illiteracy problems may be based on a refusal to consider the role of language and culture in the learning process and too much emphasis on white middle-class children as models of success. (RB)

Research indicates that kindergarten children are in the awareness stage of career development, although limited in their perceptual views of careers, and that they do not select occupations similar to the occupations of their parents. (RB)

Results were analyzed to see if a significant correlation might exist between the results of the cloze procedure and other readability formulas that would permit substituting one for the other in describing the readability level of selected non-text materials. (RB)

Reports that physically abused and neglected children most frequently responded to positive overtures by adults by ignoring them and that they regularly responded in positive ways to overtures by peers. (FL)

Shows that a perceptual-motor curriculum in body image and in space and directionality produces significant effects for kindergarteners identified as potentially perceptual-motor disabled. (RL)

When the Behavior Analysis Model of Project Follow Through was used with children from the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, 65 percent of the cohorts scored at or above grade level in mathematics. (FL)

Presents findings of a national survey to determine the extent of specialized preparation in reading of middle school teachers, including course offerings, course descriptions, methodology, and certification issues. Concludes that there are no consistent policies being formulated by teacher-training institutions in the area of middle school…