Performances on the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test and on a visual discrimination task using the same forms were found not to be related. Implication for identification of perceptual deficiencies and subsequent perceptual training are discussed. (KW)

An innovative program to evaluate the credentials of foreign students applying to American graduate schools. (HS)

Author reports an attempt to find a more comprehensive basis for tests of musical talent by considering musical performance to be highly dependent on auditory perceptual ability. (Author/MB)

Paper based on part of author's doctoral dissertation for University of Michigan. Describes an experiment demonstrating increased racial pride and improved self concept in Black fifth graders receiving a course in Black studies. (JM)

Presidential address given at the 59th Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), November 1969 in Washington, D.C. (DS)

Fifty-eight adolescents with behavior problems were contrasted with normal controls with the Self-Social Symbols Tasks. The maladjusted group was higher in egocentricity, lower in esteem, social interest, individuation, and on measures of identification. (Author)

Black student from middle class family recounts his experiences before and after attending a community high school. (RJ)

The author gives clues to identify children with hearing problems. (MF)

As many as one-third of our children, who are sometimes labeled nonretarded exceptionals," are being shunted off to special classrooms or if in a regular classroom are neglected and even ignored by the teacher. (Editor)

The needs of medicine and education for diagnostic information do not always coincide, and a number of educators and social scientists have turned to a description of information-processing models as an alternative route to describing handicapping conditions in an educationally meaningful way. (Authors)