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The article describes a study on the growth and development of black and white children with dyslalia in Michigan. The primary data for the investigation were obtained by conducting a comprehensive speech survey in the Willow Run Public Schools to determine the total number of black and white elementary children having articulatory handicaps. Children with sufficient reading skill were asked to read several sentences containing all the consonant sounds and blends in the initial and final oppositions.

Mr. Holmlund, Supervisor of Matt Visiting Teachers and Lecturer in Education at the University of Michigan, describes an unusual approach to in-service education at Flint, Michigan, made possible by a special grant for this purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports developments on education in Michigan. A national clinic on teacher education has been planned. The Michigan State Normal College faculty has completed a handbook setting forth the human factors of employment at the College. Budget for Michigan colleges of education has been cut by up to 50 percent of the amount received in 1949-50. The demand for trained and efficient camp counselors has been met by Northern Michigan College of Education. Michigan reports that a course of child growth and development is a major offering in the curriculum for the preparation of elementary teachers.

Tooth emergence in 376 black and white children between the ages of 4 and 33 months was studied in southeastern Michigan. The results indicate a trend in both groups for boys to show earlier tooth emergence in early stages and for girls to show earlier tooth emergence in later stages of deciduous tooth emergence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on biological science as an audio-tutorial system of instruction for the nonscience major at Western Michigan University. This audio-tutorial program was phased into operation slowly with each semester giving over more time to the laboratory experience as the learning focal point with less emphasis on lectures until there was no longer any need for formal presentations. From the time the audio-tutorial method was phased into operation, the amount of effort put forth by the student in the laboratory-centered experience has steadily increased. The increase in effort required shows that the audio-tutorial program has been greatly improved over its initial form and is now demanding a comparable quality of student behavior in return.

This article presents the minutes of the National Council for Elementary Science business meeting held in Detroit, Michigan on February 11, 1951. The business meeting was called to order in the English Room of the Book-Cadillac Hotel at 9:30 a.m., Sunday, February 11, 1951, by Acting President, Julian Greenlee. After a preliminary discussion of the agenda, the minutes of the 1950 business session were read. It was recommended that the names of persons referred to in the minutes be written uniformly. The secretary was instructed to make the necessary changes. With this correction, the minutes were approved. George Mallinson, coordinator of the State Representatives Program, presented a report of the work he had done in selecting state representatives and in stimulating action in the states. It was agreed that a real and significant advance had been made by Mr. Mallinson in this phase of the NCES program.

Presents the schedule for the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association at the Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan on December 27 to 30, 1970.

Students of the recent outbreaks in America's cities have with few exceptions attempted no social structural analysis of riot behavior. By structure, we mean relating the individual's place within a set of community status locations. Such a failure has significance in light of two aspects of the ghetto uprisings: (1) participation in rioting was limited to a relatively small portion of the eligible "riot" population; and (2) economic deprivation per se has not characterized rioters as individuals. Caplan and Paige (1968) report that 39 percent of rioters and 30 percent of nonrioters had incomes under $5,000 in Detroit compared to 33 percent and 29 percent in Newark. In Detroit, 30 percent of the rioters reported they were unemployed, while this figure was 32 percent for nonrioters. In Newark, the figures were 30 percent and 19 percent respectively. Both of these facts raise questions about the lack of participation among groups which are available for such action and the mobilization of persons who might otherwise be considered less likely to feel "outside the system," "alienated," etc. The present analysis of post-riot survey data in Detroit applies a model of status modality for income and educational levels using the local neighborhood as a reference point. By differentiating persons whose level of income or education falls significantly above or below the neighborhood mode, differences in riot participation were examined. Within age, income, education, and employment categories, neighborhood status modality proved to be an important predictive variable in regard to riot participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A comparison was made of data relating to 207 ten-year-olds and 3,663 older boys interviewed on complaint by the Youth Bureau of the Detroit Police Department. As contrasted with comparisons of similar nature involving groups having more "preadolescents" this one indicated that fewer ten-year-olds expressed hostility to parents and had strong peer group ties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of acculturation, developed largely by anthropologists and sociologists, has not been sufficiently incorporated into geographical research on minority groups. One area in which the concept may be advantageously used is in the study of the origin and spatial evolution of ethnic neighborhoods in American cities. In pointing a way, this study analyses the changing residential patterns of the Dutch in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and relates these changes to differences in acculturation. The Dutch initially dispersed throughout the city, both the result and the partial cause of rapid acculturation; later, residential clustering developed in response to rapid Dutch immigration, and acculturation proceeded more slowly. In the final stage, the city's ethnic ghettos were almost entirely obscured through the acculturation of later-generation families whose residential dispersion comprehended the entire metropolitan area. The example of the Kalamazoo Dutch suggests that the residential patterning of any minority group derives from the individual's identification with his ethnic community distributed areally and his sense of territoriality largely defined on the basis of that distribution. Thus, future geographic study might focus on the attachment of persons to place and the relationship between geographical distance and the social distance derived therefrom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the school program for older mentally handicapped students at the Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan, Significantly, the program was established to provide school experience parallel with outside work experiences. Furthermore, the program provides academic, social, and industrial training, job placement, and vocational counseling. The author discusses the highlights of the program. The important part of the program are extra curricular activities and outside job placement and training in business and industrial facilities. Finally, it is the greatest goal and reward for mentally handicapped students to graduate with the regular student body.

The article focuses on the case of using a screening committee for presenting the needs of a ninth-grade mentally handicapped boy in Livonia, Michigan. The author discusses the details of the conduct of such screening committee meeting. Furthermore, the teachers consultant for the mentally handicapped and the classroom teachers of the boy have devised a plan to meet the boy's needs under existing conditions. The partial-work experience and partial-school experience day has been suggested in helping the boy.

The article reports developments related to education in Michigan. The joint meeting of the Advisory Committee on Teacher Education and Certification was held on January 5, 1951. The findings of the survey conducted by the Michigan Department of Public Instruction in January 1951 shows that the state will graduate 175 more elementary teachers in the school year 1951 than the 1950 school year. The Michigan Educational Policies Commission has been appointed by Lee M. Thurston, State Superintendent of Public Instruction to review the recommendations of a subcommittee on teacher recruitment on April 6-7, 1951.

The article reports developments related to education in Michigan. The Commission of Public School Retirement Systems has proposed important changes affecting Michigan teachers. The changes include clearing up controversial problem of money in the schools, allowing retired school employees to serve a maximum of 30 days or earn 600 dollars in one semester, allowing employees to build up retirement allowances through voluntary payments and provision of funds. The Teacher Education and Professional Standards Committee has recommended that a sectional Federation of Tax Administrators be part of eight regional teacher's meetings in 1951.

The article focuses on the physical therapy program plan in the orthopedic rooms in the Allen Park and Ecorse special education programs in Michigan. Significantly, the program includes regular exercise routines as well as functional activities of daily living. The author cites the aims and objectives of the program in meeting the special needs of children. Furthermore, the physical therapist works with parents and teachers in the orthopedic care of the child. The future goals of the program includes exploring the areas of recreation, guidance, and counseling.