The thesis of this conference report is that acceleration is a much more effective method than remediation for bringing at-risk children into the educational mainstream at an early age. The papers summarized in the report provide a background on the history, politics, and demography of at-risk students and suggest applications of acceleration to…

The conference speakers addressed themselves to the general themes of assessment and policy in education. Each speaker approached the subject in his own way. In broad terms, Albert Quie and Harold Ruvoldt, Jr. emphasize the urgency of measuring the needs of school children and finding effective ways to match resources to those needs; Henry Dyer,…