Flander's interaction analysis techniques were used to identify direct" and indirect" junior high school teachers. Students of indirect teachers were superior on affective and cognitive measures. (AL)

This discussion of the role of structured guidance in facilitating cognitive development presents the author's point of view regarding a current issue in early childhood education. (WY)

If human dimensions can be reintroduced into classroom learning as a primary educational function, the learner will become personally involved and his continuing learning will affect a change in his behavior. (IR)

A number of the activities and programs of the Atlanta Public Schools are examined with an eye toward the role media plays in each. (LS)

Describes the problems in teaching children of deprived backgrounds. (Editor)

Suggests that preinstructional evaluation in the areas of mental age, auditory memory, letter names, and the use of context-auditory clues would aid in making predictive, diagnostic judgments as to later reading achievement. (VJ)

Suggests that training can increase the preference for more complex types of art, that such training will transfer to music, and that verbal originality will also increase. Bibliography and tables. (RW)

Results supported Piaget's viewpoint that mental imagery and general symbolic functioning are dependent on the growth of intelligence with respect to the preadolescent period. (Author)