Proposed is a strategy according to which a classroom specialist would provide in-service learning experiences for classroom teachers with the objective of enabling teachers to become relatively self-sufficient and competent to teach basic skills to all students, including those with significant learning disabilities. (GW)

Reviewed is the preliminary edition of the Tests of Basic Experiences, a battery of tests for preschool and kindergarten children designed to indicate how well a child's experiences have prepared him for scholastic activities. (GW)

Compared were the effect of both a preschool program developed to foster autonomous behaviors and a cognitively oriented structured program on the autonomy measures of 77 5-year-old Mexican-American or Negro children. (DB)

Considered is the possibility that behavior modification methods with educable and trainable mentally handicapped children which utilize primitive reinforcement methods such as token economies are not necessary because the systematic use of social reinforcement might produce the same effect. (DB)

Studied was the relationship of sex and race to the performance of 134 learning disabled and disadvantaged children on four subtests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children. (DB)