Secretary Office of Education

RRESEARCH in Leading for the Middle Grades represents partof a series of bulletins lased on the published and unpub-lished studies irf reading from 1955 through 1960. Other areas covered in the series deal with the primary grades, the junior high and high school, the college and adult level, and with diagnostic and remedial reading. The need for such a series Qf publications has been brought intofocus by the activities of the National Conference on Research in English and the International Reading Association. Both organ-izations have pointed out the vast amount of research in reading which is being done each year by master's and doctoral candidates. The bulk of these studies simply lies fallow in university and col-lege libraries, most of them never reaching the attention of re-search workers and reading teachers across the country. Even the published stud*; seldom provide more than a glimpse or indica-tion of trends, for as most Of the researchers readily acknowledge they present more questions than they answer. Material fort this series of bulletins was gathered by means of a questionnaire which was sent to professors of reading and direc