well. They don't want to turn all these children over to someone else for "remedial" work, and they don't want just to wait for children to mature. The Dearborn public schools have a developmental reading program in which children from junior primary through Grade VI advance in reading at the level and the rate at which they are able to work successfully regardless of grade placement. In addition, the philosophy of the self-contained classroom is being implemented in such a way that teachers can learn to know and understand their pupils and, as a result, help all except the most seriously disabled readers to overcome their difficulties and to participate in classroom activities which have reading skill as a first requisite and which constitute the major part of the school program. The Dearborn Reading Center was established in January, 1950, as an inservice training program for elementary-school teachers wishing to gain experience in teaching disabled readers under supervision and in preparing suitable reading materials for use with the poorest readers in their classrooms. During the two years in which it has been in operation, sixty teachers have worked in the Center and re-