This study analyzes the efficiency of the Soviet educational system as it has been measured against it remarkable expansion in education. (Author/RK)

Describes the difficult choice Americans are facing-whether to adapt to necessary changes, to retreat from progress and development or to degenerate into a battleground of protest and conflict. Analyzes the reasons that precipitated this situation and possible solutions. (RK)

The intellectual and theoretical basis of librarianship is the study of man and societies together with the study of the nature of knowledge-how it is generated, transmitted, and absorbed. (MM)

Article addressed to preschool teachers, day care workers and Head Start personnel, who are called upon more and more often every day to help identify potential handicaps in the young children they serve. (Authors)

As humans solve their basic physiological and security needs, they must move toward the consistent satisfaction of social and interpersonal needs. Training programs in interpersonal skills, built into the educational system, would enable people to become competent at initiating and maintaining growth enhancing relationships. (Author/JB)

A number of projects have resulted in possible approaches to psychological education. This article describes some of these activities and reports the author's research to determine their effectiveness with his high school English classes. (Author)

Described are uses of ceramics in educational programs of broad application to handicapped, particularly, mentally retarded, children. Benefits in social, emotional, and mental growth are identified. (Author/KW)

The family" as a conditional universal may be defined as the order of infant self investiture. This definition should aid the investigator to avoid the fallacy and value position of sociocentrism, i.e., absolutizing a past structure. (Author)

This study supports the hypothesis that children reared in group-care settings are not necessarily retarded in their psychosocial development in comparison to family-reared children. They may, in fact, depending upon group-care philosophy and practice, as well as reasons for admission, surpass their home-reared counterparts in psychological…

The findings imply that as a result of their early experience in a particular social setting, children enter school with differentiated concepts of self and others. Thus, for both achieving and non-achieving rural Southern Negro pupils, materials and approaches designed for typical white, middle class children will require sensitive…

Age, intellectual ability, and interpersonal adjustment were the factors which contributed most to accurate social perceptions by students in grades 3 and 5. This article is based on a dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of Cornell University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree. (MH)

Highlights four years of experience at a day care center serving 80 children, between three and six years of age, on Manhattan's West Side. Center uses small groups as a modality for improving learning. (Authors/JM)