A critique arguing: (1) that the assumptions underlying the use of intelligence tests are invalid; (2) that findings regarding individual differences can not be generalized to differences between populations; and, (3) that the studies cited as evidence were both incorrectly designed and improperly executed. (JM)

Suggests that school arrangements have ironical, ill-understood consequences and frequently meet with failure. (DM)

Results support the hypothesis that the differences between the test results of the middle and lower classes in the individual countries are greater than the differences between the same classes in the three different countries. (Author)

The investigators recommended that in view of the similarity in the results across ethnic and SES backgrounds, that the high-frequency words identified in the investigation be among the first words students learn to spell and write. (Authors)

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)

Describes a classification system based on interpersonal and economic resources which provides insight into the social problems of modern culture. Concreteness versus symbolism and particularism versus universalism are the coordinate pairs into which six categories of resources--love, services, goals, money, information, and status--are plotted.…

This well known writer credits the free, un-castebound structure of education in the United States for allowing him to achieve his full intellectual potential, but warns that increasing social inequities threaten the society's fundamental virtues. (GC)

While inequity and social bias are relevant to the issue of military conscription, we should recognize that the present controversy over selective service involves national values and the credibility of institutions. A newly designed selective service system is likely to be more just than the present volunteer system. (Author/GC)