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)

Reviews and evaluates documents processed prior to Fall 1969 by the Educational Resources Information Center pertinent to "the manner in which nonstandard dialects differ from standard English"; a preprint from a forthcoming pamphlet of the National Conference on Research in English. (Author/SW)

A study of the effect of early admission on children in the first, third, fifth, and seventh grades in terms of academic and nonacademic achievement social and emotional development. Results showed no significant differences between early-admit children and their non-early-admit peers. (Author)