From Birth to Seven

This is a further report from the National Children's Bureau, of the National Child Development Study (1958, Cohort), and, as the title suggests, it is concerned with the inter-relationships between various aspects of childbirth and infancy on the one hand and scholastic adjustment and attainment on the other when children have been attending infant schools for two years. It is a known difficulty of longitudinal studies that, by the time the results are available, society and social conditions may well have changed. In a period of rapidly accelerating change, as at the present, the difficultyis even more pronounced. As a result, it is only too easy to question the variables chosen for the study in 1958 and to ask what different variables might