Much of the debate at the Tokyo Conference was on the subject of democratization. These discussions were preceded by the preparation of a working paper, which examined some of the deficiencies in educational systems. (Author/RK)

TRANSITION is so named because it allows children to make a gradual passage from kindergarten into first grade. One school year is spent between these two grades in a success-oriented atmosphere. (Author)

Authors discuss the results of a study that concentrates on the discontented attitude on the part of students toward school and its objectives, expressed in a manner that threatens the codes of conduct, written or implied, and disrupts the orderly process of education. (Author/RK)

Keeping in mind Woodson's analysis of higher education and blacks, one should not find today's art of mis-educating black people anything but in the truest of American traditions. (DM)

In this essay, the authors question the undisputed assumption underlying both sides of the IQ controversy in the United States: that IQ is of basic importance to economic success. Instead, social class background is the key factor. (DM)

The concepts taught in the Language I Program are those necessary for logical thought and for the child to understand what he is taught in school. Language II focuses on teaching children to analyze language and to use it to describe qualities and relationships observed in the world. (Author)

Several institutions of higher learning combined their efforts and resources to develop a Neighborhood Program that would reach the disadvantaged people in the Savannah Model Cities. Discusses program design, problems, and results of taking the program to the people under conditions and situations to which they could easily identify or relate. (RB)

Palomar Community College (California) has used a mobile van with classroom and tutorial facilities, counseling and information services to reach Indian and Mexican-American students in the area. (RN)

The child's performance in school has to do with his own family background, essentially the educational characteristics of that background. (Author)

A radical re-structuring of traditional schooling requires research into effective means of offering the whole population of developing nations access to the educational system: the role of mass media, means and limits of functional education, institutionalization of lifelong education. (JB)

This article describes the development and contemporary growth of Montessori preschools, analyzes the positive and negative contributions of the method, and assesses implications of the movement for public education. (JH)