Two works of Patricia Sexton, Education and Income, and The American School, are reviewed to illustrate the American schools' role in maintaining a class society. (DB)

Study 1 reports a tendency for Negro children from a lower socioeconomic status to perform below the mean on the WISC and on the SB. Comparison of mean IQ's in Study 2 suggests that the WPPSI more closely approximates the SB than the WISC. (Author)

The methods used by Humphreys and Dachler to estimate effects in their analysis of Project TALENT data to test Jensen's Theory of Intelligence are shown to produce biased estimates. (Author/TA)

Discusses the conflict between two views in the context of educational programs: the Essentialist" view (permanent, rational, formal and universal) and the Existentialist" view (irrational, relevant to the present and personal, involved socially and politically). Suggests ways of dealing with the tensions engendered, including a balance of both…

Assesses the various factors which serve to aid or impede adult education as seen from the research findings of past decades. (AN)

This article describes a device used to array the pieces of the Object Assembly Test, a subscale of the Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children, in exact standardized order in less time than is now needed and without a screen, thus guaranteeing that the subject will have no previous experience with the pieces. (Author/BY)