Because of lack of research and too much political gamesmanship, accountability's great promise may never be realized, say the authors. (Editor)

Research supported in part by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. (DD)

An experimental task to determine the effects of materials and transformations on number concept development was administered to 120 educable mentally handicapped children from 8 to 10 years of age and 60 nonretarded kindergarten children. (Author/DB)

Presents a music curriculum which provides a music program for preschool through high school students that emphasizes comprehensive musicianship in all learning experiences. (Author/RK)

Examines several issues relative to the role of immaturity in the instruction of man, and how the young are inducted into the species. (DM)

Discusses gap which has developed because educators emphasize academic excellence while adolescents are characterized by an interest in human values and growing emotional isolation. Suggestions for meeting the needs of this generation are offered. (Address presented at the 1969 Conference of the National Association for The Education of Young…

Several hundred children in various group care programs were compared for cognitive development with same-age children reared at home. The group-reared children did not show any of the developmental deficiencies usually attributed to institutional care. (NH)

Reports a new body of longitudinal research concerning the role of malnutrition in retarded intellectual development. (JM)

Data from a representative sample of four-year colleges and universities in the U. S. were analyzed to reveal the relations between the number of student demonstrations, impersonal treatment of students, institutional size, and responsiveness to reasonable student demands. (JM)