Teachers' Gatherings to Discuss Juvenile Delinquency, Prodigies

The dual educational problems of "the young delinquent" and "the gifted child" will be considered at the annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers Association. The program will run here for ten days, beginning Wednesday.

The conference will be opened by the keynote address, to be given by Mrs. Vera Micheles Dean, editor of "The Foreign Policy Bulletin." This speech, called the Inglis Lecture, will be given at 8 p.m. Wednesday, in Fogg.

The noted philosopher, Sidney Hook, will close the conference with a talk on "Education and Creative Intelligence," March 24, in the Hotel Commander.

Between these two speeches, several seminars and numerous discussion groups will consider almost every topic related to education--with particular emphasis on the delinquent and the prodigy.

Ten teachers, educational scholars, and State officials will discuss the early detection and prevention of juvenile delinquency in a conference Monday. David V. Tiedeman, associate professor of Education, and William M. McCord, instructor in Social Psychology, will take two different approaches to this topic.

Five members of the faculty will join the meeting the next day to discuss the "Implications of Social Class Research for Classroom Teachers." The annual School Board Conference scheduled for March 23 will break up into three panel discussions to consider "The Gifted Child--Today's Neglected Student," "The Regional or Area School," and "What Is the School Committee Member's Responsibility to the Educational Program and the Community?"