Discusses research on reading and mathematics in two first year classes in a working class district, in which one class was taught using the mastery learning approach, whereas the other class was taught in the traditional manner; mastery learning attempts to help every child attain operationally defined objectives. (JM)

Article by the Deputy Director (Development) of the National Children's Bureau, London, surveys U.S. research on compensatory education from the 1960's and Head Start, concludes that normally only those programs are effective in the long term which focus on the parent-child relationship. (Author/JM)

Reviews recent projects on the education of immigrants within the framework of the six suggestions for research made by the Select Committee on Race Relations and Immigrations; e.g. the effects on children of various educational arrangements for immigrants; methods of teaching race relations in schools; and others. (Author/JM)

This overview traces the development of thought from the Plowden Report through Halsey's work on educational priority areas to the author's own research on the use of playgroups in a council estate, concluding that schools, by themselves, cannot compensate for the ravages of deprivation. (Author/JM)

The purpose of this editorial is to formulate some reflections of a very general and introductory kind on the problem posed by the educational handicaps of large numbers of children from socially and economically deprived backgrounds, from the point of view of a developmental and clinical psychologist, rather than that of an educationist.…

Examines some of the discussion provoked by recent research in compensatory education strategies in Europe and the U.S. emphasizing the complexity and relativity of 'socio-cultural handicaps' and arguing for an individual rather than for a social class oriented approach to compensatory education. (Author/JM)

Describes a program being carried out by the Faculte des Sciences Psycho-pedagogiques, Universite de l'Etat a Mons, in which controlled intervention is made to identify handicaps imposed by the social environment on education and to pinpoint the most efficient educational methods, focusing on how the project affects family-school cooperation.…

The aim of this project--carried out by teachers, students and their college tutors in an Inner London Educational Priority Area--was to see whether lack of experience significantly impeded disadvantaged children in forming mathematical concepts, and to assess how far enrichment activities can compensate these children. (Author/JM)

In this dialogue,' B. Willsher discusses the relation between language and deprivation, linking some of its theoretical aspects with her own experiences in school, and during her involvement with an Educational Priority Area; J. Hynds criticizes three of her assumptions, based upon recent writings and research. (JM)