A large battery of various tests of intelligence, scholastic achievement, and short-term memory was administered to some 2,000 white, Negro and Mexican-American pupils in grades 4, 5, and 6 in a largely agricultural school district in the central valley of California. (Author)

Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) Verbal, Performance and Full Scale IQ's were compared for blacks and whites (matched in age, sex, geographic region, father's occupation, and urban-rural residence). Although whites had significantly higher verbal and Full Scale IQ's at all age levels, Performance IQ was significantly…

Focuses on the strategy of using the science of genetics to pepetuate the racism of the dominant society, proposing that arguments presented by the "liberal" proponents of special programs in abandoning the goals of the 1960s were used to rationalize the reopening of the latent question of genetic black inferiority. (Author/JM)

In this article, the author examines classification practices in constitutional terms; he assesses both the plausibility of treating student classification issues in equal protection and due process terms, and the policy consequences of such treatment. (Editor)

The author discusses the findings of an eight-year study in which she explored school and agency classification procedures for children based on standardized intelligence tests. (Editor)

Evaluated was the extent to which psychologists and physicians made use of a measure of adaptive behavior in the classification of 100 mentally retarded children (5 to 16 years of age) during a 10 year period. (Author/MC)

Discusses several common misunderstandings regarding theories of competence, especially that of psychological reality of competence formalisms. Argues that the claim of the psychological reality of a mechanism,'' as opposed to a structural description, is only appropriate when the mechanism accounts parsimoniously for the widest possible range of…

Experiments with congenitally deaf children are used to investigate the relationship of language to thought and to affectivity, and the effects of environmental deprivation on intelligence. (DD)

Articulates the position of linquists who believe that the school system must adapt to the language and learning styles of the majority in the inner city schools. (DM)

Study examined the childhood intellectual performance of a sample of black college graduates from poverty backgrounds to determine whether or not (a) they were more intelligent children than their neighborhood peers, (b) they were more intelligent than their own siblings, or (c) they simply came from bright families. (Author)

The challenge of education is to extend the work of education from a classroom perspective which focuses on the child's learning academic subjects in the classroom with a professional educator to a life-time and life-space perspective which extends from birth onward. (Author)

Paper presented at the 24th annual convention of the California State Psychological Association, Corona, Calif., January 30, 1971. (DM)

The authors state that quantity and quality of televiewing have not changed in 20 years and are not a predictor of pupil achievement. (Authors)

The effects of extraneous auditory stimulation on incidental learning in 27 normal (CA 6 years) and 27 retarded (CA 10 and 11 years) Ss was examined. (DB)