This study treats the child's vocal and rhythmic development immediately subsequent to birth and forward, and shows how this development relates to musical learning. (Author)

Intellectual functioning, visual perception, and academic achievement were investigated in two samples (25 in each) of children (mean IQ 94.20 and 95.32, and mean age 8.24 years and 8.13 years, respectively) with significant reading disorders. (Author/MC)

Teachers of a black curriculum program must be able to hold black culture up as a banner, worthy in itself of admiration and praise and not look upon it as unworthy of remaining in America as a separate and important entity. (Author)

Provides a structural definition of oral interpretation in terms of processes of partial identification, interaction, tension, individual unified perception, and definition. (RN)

The data indicated that disadvantaged children required more time to process visual information than did middle-class children, but the processing speed for the 2 groups tended to become more similar as grade level was increased. (Author)

Finding suggests that in perceptual learning situations like that of the present study, there may be no particular advantage to impoverishing the environment'' by minimizing irrelevant cues, at least as far as the children's immediate memory for stimuli is concerned. (Author)

Reports an exploratory study which attempted to examine one facet of an educational accountability model, a model that conceptualizes the school as a social system, in contrast to a product management model which relates accountability to a product outcome. (JM)

One question prompting the present research concerned the relation between performance under tachistoscopic'' conditions where exposure durations are too brief to permit active overt visual search, and performance when overt search is possible. (Author)

Described are instruments of a cognitive, affective and social nature which might be used for studying the social and organizational climate of schools. (CB)

This article presents the findings of a large-scale educational survey on pupil perception of their school environment and suggests how teachers and administrators can assess the environmental climate in their own schools. (Author/RK)

Through a cooperative approach, four area school districts and a State university solved the budgetary problem of obtaining objective proof of the need for programs for children with learning disabilities. (Author)

The paper suggests that the use of a single visual-motor test, (here, the Winter Haven Perceptual Forms Test) as a screening device for visual-motor difficulties in the first grade is questionable. (Author)