In this issue two of the articles are devoted to criticisms of compensatory education as an educational approach. Doxey A. Wilkerson feels that "make up" efforts "do not serve to realize that academic potential" of poverty children. Roger A. Freeman states that the recent enormous economic investment in educational improvement has not yielded a commensurate improvement in "output," because there is a fixed human potential for intellectual development. Other articles deal with dropouts, busing and desegregation, a college readiness program in San Mateo, California, a Negro school district in Georgia, and a new reading method used in Maryland. (NH)