Prefaced by an interpretation of American preschool studies, a semihistorical approach is used in presenting findings from preschool experiments from the West Riding Educational Priority Area project in England, with a purpose being to suggest some alternatives and to sketch a framework for explaining the conflicting results. (ND)

Three hundred and ninety one Israeli students (ages 13 and 17) were examined to understand the different forms (projective and overt) and expression of fear of success about their own futures and that of their classmates. (DEP)

Evaluated was the effect of incidental teaching of language skills in free play situations with 11 low income 4- and 5-year-old Black children. (Author/CL)

Discusses research on reading and mathematics in two first year classes in a working class district, in which one class was taught using the mastery learning approach, whereas the other class was taught in the traditional manner; mastery learning attempts to help every child attain operationally defined objectives. (JM)

Provides case studies of Australian children who fail for social reasons. The role of social factors operating within the schools is stressed along with the lost curriculum. That factors operating in school failure are in fact social problems is suggested. [Available from Publications Branch, Education Department of Victoria, 234 Queensberry…

Describes a method for improving vocabulary skills of disadvantaged college freshmen. (RB)

Describes an activities approach to the Man-Made World that is organized as a series of mini-courses to enable disadvantaged and unmotivated students to achieve a degree of technological literacy. (GS)

The last of a series, this article describes a short story and activities which may be used in teaching it, presenting an approach that can be incorporated into an entire course. (RB)

Suggested are guidelines for the selection and use of music for the mentally retarded ethnic child who typically encounters language, social, and emotional problems and inferior educational opportunities. (CL)

Assessed were individual foster placements of 27 children ages 4-months through 12-years with suspected developmental delay. (CL)

Suggests that lower socioeconomic children may experience greater difficulty on oral language tasks than is the case on measures that emphasize receptive language. (RB)

The effects of compensatory education programs in the United States during the past 20 years are discussed. The author believes the programs have had the least impact on scholastic achievement and intelligence quotient (IQ). The theoretical view of human intelligence and prevailing views of psychologists and educators of the 1960's regarding the…

Part of the Effective Programs for Students At Risk project, this study examines research findings concerning program effects on students attending either full-day or half-day kindergartens. Through use of the best-evidence synthesis technique, the study categorizes existing studies in terms of their methodological rigor and assigns most…