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The Joint Legislative Committee to Study Public Education in South Carolina identifies and studies problems in education at all levels from elementary school to the twelfth grade. It includes various recommendations and any current issues the committee is investigating.

The social setting in which media are received effects responses. 79 3rd generation, Polish-Catholic, ULc public school boys (grades: kindergarten-6th) were interviewed. When asked with whom they usually participated in being exposed to media: 52% watched TV with family, 75% saw movies with peers, and 74% read comics alone. The older the child (by grades) the more frequently did the alone and peer category appeared. In terms of media over age of child, the older the greater the preference for movies (0% kindergarten, 63% 6th grade) and the greater the decline of TV (100% to 37%). As an exploratory study it is suggested that social situation of content is as important as the demographic variables in the study of participation and exposure to mass media. L. P. Chall.

A map of Northern Arizona showing Tappan Spring and Tappan Canyon which were named after J.B. Tappan after he discovered them driving sheep in the area in the 1880's. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: J.B. Tappan (1858-1933) was among Arizona's early sheep ranchers and was the first president of the Arizona Wool Grower's Association, headquartered in Flagstaff. In 1898 he patented land, bought and leased from the government, and established the Santa Maria and Alamo Ranches; however, he lost water rights to his ranch in 1915, and much of the land became worthless for ranching. The area is now Alamo State Park. Tappan's wife, Laura Gordon Fulton (1849-1933), was from a prominent Baltimore, Maryland family. At age 37, she was "allowed" by her family to travel West to teach kindergarten. In 1886 she established the first kindergarten in the West at Flagstaff. The Tappan's only child, Edith, was born in Flagstaff in 1891. Left a widow with three children at the age of 24, she moved to Phoenix and ran a successful citrus-cotton ranch. She died in Phoenix in 1943.

There are a variety of agencies engaged in elementary education in Communist China. Besides the regular elementary schools for children, there are adult schools of elementary grade and spare-time elementary schools for youth as well as older people; there are winter schools in the rural areas, worker-peasant schools, and various kinds of literacy classes. In view of limited space, this article will deal only with the regular elementary schools. Kindergartens and nursery schools are not included in the discussion.

The introduction of the settlement house movement into the South was slower than elsewhere & never as widespread as in the North. Where conditions resembled those of large Northern cities, as in New Orleans, settlements appeared, belatedly, but typical of the best. Published & unpublished writings on the early history of settlements & more particularly, of Kingsley House of New Orleans, the oldest in the South, are used. Newspaper & other contemporary sources are cited. Note is taken of the close link, ignored in the literature, between the kindergarten movement & the settlement movement in the last 2 decades of the 19th cent. The conscious effort on the part of the Kingsley House pioneers to place their agency in the mainstream of the settlement movement succeeded & inspired other Southern cities to emulate them. Unfortunately, the chroniclers of the nat'l settlement movement & of soc work generally have ignored the experience of New Orleans & other Southern communities so that the history of US soc welfare is actually the history of the Northeast. There are few indications that this parochial att is changing. AA.

Information obtained from 379 mothers living in the Greater Boston area and with a child in kindergarten was used to test the hypothesis that children who are highly frustrated will spend more time viewing TV than children who are not. Frustration was defined in terms of method and severity of punishment used by mothers; degree of permissiveness in the areas of sex, dependency, and aggression; types of restrictions placed on child in respect to noise, neatness, etc.; and extent of maternal warmth vis a vis the child. Since both TV viewing patterns and childhood frustrations are functions of SC, the hypothesis was tested separately for each of the two SC groups: UMc & ULc. In the UMc families, for 6 of the 9 measures of frustration, signif relationships in the expected direction were signif at <.05. The amount of time spent watching TV increased from 15-50% in the highly frustrated group. In the ULc group there is no such consistent relationship. This might be explained by the differential valuation placed by the two class levels on TV viewing; since extensive TV viewing is more approved in the ULc, non-frustrated children will tend to imitate their parents, and thus cannot be distinguished in terms of time spent with TV from frustrated children who seek TV as a form of phantasy release. K. Geiger.