The author describes the ways in which the school psychologist, if he is adequately trained and has had previous experience as a successful teacher, can render vital service to a school system.

A discussion of what controls our behavior. Behavior of individuals is determined by the values they hold important and the satisfactions they secure in daily living.

Parents carry the greatest responsibility for the mental health as well as the physical health of their children. However, parents cannot be expected to fulfill this obligation unless they have the knowledge and support of specialists trained in this area. Government agencies, public health workers, private physicians, and teachers have circulated facts about care of physical health.

Many schools have instituted routine conferences between parents and teachers with little realization of the significance of the shift from isolation to cooperative responsibility. Only when parents, accepting at face value the invitation to confer with the teacher about their child's education, question school procedure in such matters as class grouping, promotion, or subject matter does the full significance of the move become apparent and frequently alarming.

WHAT are the relationships of the objectives of democracy and of total war; how meet immediate war needs and at the same time develop the effective citizenry required for the world after war; how coordinate the educational efforts of the various school, social, and governmental agencies in the interests of the well-integrated individual; how coordinate these efforts in the continuous development of the individual as child, youth, and adult; how best study the present emergency with a view to developing needed insights regarding education after the war—these were the problems which were central in the thinking of the conference as it addressed itself to the study of "A Sound Program for Education Today."

The manual How to Study the Behavior of Children is divided into three sections. The first section deals with opportunities for studying behavior, the second with practical methods that may be used in such a study, the third with the use that may be made of knowledge gained in studying behavior.

A description of the behavior summary and its uses. The behavior summary attempts to portray the active, growing child in his response to his classmates, teachers, school experiences, and subject matter.

Guidance in the elementary school is a process of education by which the growth and development of the individual child is given major emphasis. Educators and psychologists must cooperate closely if sound methods for stimulating emotional growth are to be found. In addition, a guidance program must provide remedial help for children who are handicapped in any one aspect of growth.

The purpose of this study was two-fold. The first was to investigate the reliability of two preschool intelligence tests, namely, the Kuhlmann-Binet and the Merrill-Palmer. The second purpose was to determine the developmental status of fifty nursery school children, through an analysis of the data kept for each child during a minimum of four school years, in order to compare the nursery school status with the later status of the child.