Summarizes and assesses the empirical findings from social science research in the areas of integrated and compensatory education, considers the role of the social scientist in policy-making in these areas, and concludes that this role should yield to a principle of voluntarism which would permit maximum citizen choice. (Author/JM)

This study attempts to isolate variables which influence intelligence and achievement scores of disadvantaged black school children in the elementary school years. Based on a study of the mean changes in the IQ scores of third graders since they were in first grade, and of changes in the IQ and reading achievement scores of sixth graders since…

Concerning The Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1972, there is new Federal emphasis on compensatory education to help disadvantaged children. This report takes the position that compensatory education can be made to work, and that the application of concentrated compensatory resources (usually at higher dollar costs) in basic learning…