Contents of this book include the following articles: "Genetics and competance: Do heritability indices predict educability?" Jerry Hirsch; "The role of experience in the development of competence," J. McVicker Hunt; "Intelligence-- why it grows, why it declines," John L. Horn; "The demographic context of metropolitan education," Karl E. Taeuber; "Of achievement, hope and time in poverty," Jules Henry; "How teachers learn to help children fail," Estelle Fuchs; "The self-fulfilling prophecy in ghetto education," Ray C. Rist; "Creativity and intelligence in children," Michael Wallach and Nathan Kagan; "The creative artist as an explorer," Jacob W. Getzels and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi; "A revolution in treatment of the retarded," George W. Albee; "Get the teacher' to 'learn'," Robert Hamblin et al.; "Programmed for social class: tracking in American high schools," Walter E. Schafer et al.; and, "Rich man's qualifications for poor man's jobs," Ivar Berg. (JM)