This work focuses on the highly controversial Project 100,000 which was initiated in the midst of the Vietnam War and the War on Poverty during the Johnson administration. With the project as a model, the authors easily show exactly how the military examined, selected, classified, trained, and utilized the one third of our nation generally considered untrainable and unemployable. In addition to providing detailed statistics on the performance of lower aptitude youth in the military for the last half-century, this work analyzes experiments conducted by the armed forces to develop effective and efficient ways to train these youths.

Papers commissioned for the Conference on [title] convened April 1988 in San Diego, Calif. to explore whether the field of cognitive science might offer perspectives that would aid in the development of more effective interventions for improving the cognitive ability of American children, youth, and