The contrast between the real power and the experience of impotence that millions of bright, earnest school children attest to prompts one to enquire into preplanned impotence and self-defeat. (Author)

Suggests that the major determinant of ghetto behavior and social organization is the relationship between the local population and higher level institutions; explores the failure of an organization in a ghetto area set up to destroy abandoned houses. (Author/JM)

Discusses the First School, a primary school with an age of either five to eight or five to nine in which student and teacher share in a learning partnership that centres on the child. (Author/RK)

Purpose of the study was to identify children at the end of the kindergarten year who showed potential educational, maturational, and neurophysiological problems, and to design a two year reading and remediation program to fit their individual needs. (Authors)

Reprints of article are available from the author at Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan 48063. (DS)

The indifference of officials toward school problems and their lack of support for the teacher is a cause of classroom failure. (CB)

Improved performance for students with learning disabilities may result from exemption from certain subjects or adaptation of teaching methods. Potential areas for needed educational change are indicated. (Author/AG)

Purpose of the study was to discover whether the characteristics of academically handicapped children could be more precisely identified and described, and to clarify further the causes and the familial patterns of learning disabilities. (Authors/MB)

Where students are academically qualified, it is incumbent on all educators, especially counselors, to concern themselves with the process of dropping or flunking out instead of the product (an individual who failed to conform to the existing academic demands of the university community. (Author)