The organizer of the Silverlake People's Playground in Los Angeles describes the playground's beginnings, its objectives, its struggles with city bureaucracy and its part in the national movement for quality day care. (Editor)

Author stresses the great need for each teacher to use all of the available resources along with his own fresh look at the child in his situation in order to discover the meaning of the child's behavior from the child's own point of view. (Author/RK)

Study supports the hypothesis that boys and girls, at the time they enter school, do not show the sex-related patterns of fantasy that have been found to differentiate adult men and women. By the age of about 9, sexual differentiation in fantasy patterns is clearly evident. (Authors/CB)

Teachers can help children recognize conflicts and deal creatively with them. (DS)

Results of this study demonstrated that boys identify strongly with masculine role models both in primary relationships and in those in which they are not acquainted directly with the role model; girls tend to identify with both male and female role models more than boys. (Author)

Study analyzes intellectual ability and achievement in school of six to eleven year old students. (RK)

Teaching a young child to respect life through exploration of the environment. (SP)

The teaching of science to the underachiever is comprehensive, challenging, and difficult. Suggestions are made concerning methods of instruction that should be employed and the importance of recognizing and understanding the underachiever. (DF)

Article gives an account of a successful high school child development laboratory program in Gaithersburg, Maryland. (GB)

Children 5 to 7 years old were studied; results compared role of private speech in relation to task difficulty, age, and instructions given. (SP)

The article presents a table of selected principles of child growth and development and the corresponding observable classroom practices. (Author)

Weekend activities involving college students and 6 to 9 year olds for a 10-week period effected positive changes in children's IQ, general adjustment, and need nurturance. (Author/SP)