This tongue-in-cheek article writted by the late Fred Barnes was first published in May 1967. It is being reprinted in this issue as a reminder that useful educational research avoids the pitfall of pointlessly massaging the obvious. (Editor)

This study analyzes the relationship between counselor effectiveness as defined by scores on the Indexes of Communication and Discrimination and intelligence as measured by undergraduate grade point average (GPA) and Miller Analogy Test (MAT) scores. Subjects were 51 master's degree candidates in an introductory counseling course. Their scores on…

Reports a significant interaction between I.Q. and reading achievement for 277 students in grades three through twelve but correlations between I.Q. and reading achievement among left-handers were significantly lower than among right-handers. (TO)

Discusses programs useful for retarded people and the role of community colleges in their development. (RK)

Elementary school children were tested individually on their learning of mathematics and on Piagetian tests of concrete operations. Younger children were found to be inferior to older children in their success on learning tasks. (ST)

Purpose of the study was to provide an adequate test of the original Rosenthal and Jacobson teacher expectancy hypothesis by using: (a) equivalent control and experimental groups based on pretest data, and (b) a more suitable test of intelligence. (Authors/CB)

Purpose of study was: (1) to obtain data in a cultural setting concerning the ability of children to conserve weight at the point of transition from primary to secondary education; and (2) to explore the relationship between performance or reasoning tasks of the kind employed in nonverbal psychometric tests and the presence or absence of ability…

Previous studies have shown that retesting of groups of subnormal pupils does not lead to significant increases in the mean IQ; this present study confirms this for non-immigrant pupils. In contrast, however, there is a significant rise in the mean IQ of a group of immigrants. (Author)

Socioeconomic factors which differentiate social-class groups vastly overshadow any within-family treatment factors that might affect intellectual growth. (Authors)

Points out the responsibility of the intellectuals in revealing fallacies in Christopher Jencks' arguments. The idea of inequality as a philosophical concept, for example, is challenged. (DS)

Believes that the New Jersey Commission of Education's Policy of state-wide testing creates an atmosphere of repression against teachers'' and curbs imagination and innovation'' in children. (DS)