Catch Them Before They Fall

CATCH THEM BEFORE THEY FALL Identification and Assessment To Prevent Reading Failure in Young Children

Early reading for low-SES minority language children: an attempt to 'catch them before they fall'.

Minority language and low socioeconomic status (SES) students are at high risk for language and learning disabilities. In an attempt to 'catch them before they fall', an early reading project was initiated in four kindergarten classes, in a low-SES bilingual school (English/French as a second language), where minority language children form a majority. The project included: (1) teaching reading...

Catch Them Before They Fall: Identification and Assessment to Prevent Reading Failure in Young Children

And the consequences of a slow start in reading become monumental as they accumulate exponentially over time. As Stanovich (1986) pointed out in his well-known paper on the "Matthew effects" (the rich get richer and the poor get poorer) associated with failure to acquire early word reading skills, these consequences range from negative attitudes toward reading (Oka & Paris, 1986), to reduced op...

The harder they fall.

The past decade may well be remembered as the era of the high-flying, aggressive leader. Corner-office titans like Kenneth Lay, Dennis Kozlowski, and Bernard Ebbers graced the covers of business magazines. They captured the public's fascination with their bold business moves and charismatic sound bites. Then scandal set in, and the stars fell to earth. In this article, social psychologist Roder...

Let Them Fall Where They May: Capture Regions of Curved Objects and Polyhedra

When a three dimensional object is placed in contact with a supporting plane, gravitational forces move it to one of a nite set of stable poses. For each stable pose, there is a region in the part's connguration space called a capture region; for any initial connguration within the region, the object is guaranteed to converge to that pose. The problem of computing maximal capture regions from a...