Article considers the need for the B. A. degree, its relevance for students, and the institution of a complementary degree, the B.L.S. (Bachelor of Liberal Studies). (RK)

Author warns that in order for children to develop intellectually educators must recognize the need for prevention of extended deviations in social, physical, emotional and/or mental areas. Early childhood seemed to be the most promising time for effecting desired changes in intellectual growth patterns. (Author/RK)

This study treats the child's vocal and rhythmic development immediately subsequent to birth and forward, and shows how this development relates to musical learning. (Author)

Intellectual functioning, visual perception, and academic achievement were investigated in two samples (25 in each) of children (mean IQ 94.20 and 95.32, and mean age 8.24 years and 8.13 years, respectively) with significant reading disorders. (Author/MC)

Teachers of a black curriculum program must be able to hold black culture up as a banner, worthy in itself of admiration and praise and not look upon it as unworthy of remaining in America as a separate and important entity. (Author)

Provides a structural definition of oral interpretation in terms of processes of partial identification, interaction, tension, individual unified perception, and definition. (RN)

The data indicated that disadvantaged children required more time to process visual information than did middle-class children, but the processing speed for the 2 groups tended to become more similar as grade level was increased. (Author)

Finding suggests that in perceptual learning situations like that of the present study, there may be no particular advantage to impoverishing the environment'' by minimizing irrelevant cues, at least as far as the children's immediate memory for stimuli is concerned. (Author)

Reports an exploratory study which attempted to examine one facet of an educational accountability model, a model that conceptualizes the school as a social system, in contrast to a product management model which relates accountability to a product outcome. (JM)

One question prompting the present research concerned the relation between performance under tachistoscopic'' conditions where exposure durations are too brief to permit active overt visual search, and performance when overt search is possible. (Author)