This study examined academic and behavioral characteristics of 423 adolescents who had attended a residential school over a seven-year period. Students represented diverse demographic backgrounds. Student academic achievement was examined at admissions and over time in reading, mathematics, written language, and fluency. Findings are discussed…

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports model, first introduced into public schools, has been extended to alternative settings. This article highlights applying PBIS to day treatment and residential treatment education programs increasingly challenged to serve seriously emotionally disturbed youth whose risk factors have become more…

Discusses the needs of children brought up without parents and the state's care of children in boarding institutions in the USSR. Highlights the establishment and accomplishments of the Soviet Children's Fund which was set up to assist these children. (RJC)

The conclusions of a survey of Lutheran residential child care programs published in December 1970 by the Lutheran Council in the U.S.A. (Editor)

A questionnaire survey intended to clarify the status of educational arrangements in Illinois institutions serving disturbed, delinquent or predelinquent, or dependent/neglected children. Information on patterns of service, potential needs for specially trained teachers and related professional personnel were related areas of interest. (CS)