Results indicated that the normal achievers learned more effectively under person and performance reinforcement than under tangible reinforcement, whereas the reverse was true for low achievers. (Author)

Significant differences in IQ and measures of motor development were found between twenty-four inadequately and sixteen adequately nourished New Delhi preschool children from lower middle class homes. Former showed greater variability than the latter, and girls in the former category had lower mean scores than boys in the latter. (RJ)

Stenographic transcript of the testimony of Dr. Alexander Plante of the Connecticut State Department of Education before the Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, May 5, 1970. Research data are given which support the findings of James Coleman and others that children living in urban poverty areas achieve better in classes with…

A child learns very early in his life that there is a great disparity between truth and social propriety. He quickly accomodates himself to this situation in order to avoid unpleasant experiences. (CK)

The educational and civil rights issues underlying the conflict between State education standards and Amish parochial schools. (RA)

It was predicted that lower class case histories would be judged more negatively by those Ss who were more authoritarian as measured by the F Scale. This prediction was confirmed for a group of 24 psychiatric residents and bordered on significance for a group of 16 social work students. (Author)

Argues that many present programs equate economic improvement with ethnic assimilation, and are based upon values of individualism, although the interests of both the cultural minorities and the nation would be served by the reinforcement of ethnicity. (JM)

Recounts history of Windsor Hill School, Los Angeles, its change from a white to a black community institution, its maintenance of high academic standards through parental intervention and action, and the high achievement levels of its black students. (RJ)

Black, middle class males generally supported nontraditional roles for women, women's issues, and egalitarian marital relationships. These data, along with results of an earlier study, indicated that this group's preferences concerning female roles were determined not only by social class, but also by ethnic/class-related values, needs, and…