In response to overwhelming demand, Poland (Ohio) Schools proposed a pilot program to demonstrate that people wanted preschool and day care services that could pay for themselves. The program integrated early childhood programs with the regular school curriculum to stimulate children's interest in art, music, health, and sciences and develop motor…

Three models designed to facilitate the integration of severely disabled children into community day care settings are described: the Technical Assistance Project, a consultation model; the Staff Development Preservice/Inservice Model, an approach offering training in special needs education; and the Consultation Team Model which relies on an…

In the zeal to promote much-needed governmental funding of infant day care, there is tendency to glamorize alternative care-giving arrangements. In most cases, the quality of infant care will be optimized when delivered at home by mature, competent parents or parent surrogates. These benefits should not be devalued to bolster the cause of infant…

The article reports the effects of step-by-step integration of four cognitively and/or behaviorally handicapped preschool children in a day care program designed to serve nonhandicapped children. Results were mixed. Journal availability: see EC 133 846. (Author)

A comparison of students on a standardized behavioral checklist and follow-up observations examined underidentification of behavioral disorders in preschoolers attending licensed daycare settings. (Author/CL)

Compared parents' perceptions of child care quality to those of researchers. Found that parents highly valued all aspects of care, especially interactions, health, and safety. Parents rated the quality of their children's care significantly higher than did observers. Quality scores differed greatly when parental values increased, and smaller…

Describes the contents of the November 1989 issue of Early Childhood Development and Care, which concerns early childhood education and care in Australia. (RJC)

Describes the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement Preprimary Project which is an ongoing cross-national survey of early childhood care and education in developed and developing countries. Presents information assembled thus far related to the training of teachers and caregivers in Finland, Hong Kong, Italy, and…

Urges school boards to find creative ways for schools to provide day care and safety for children of families in which both parents work. Describes the preschool and extended school care programs in St. Louis Park (Minnesota). (Author/WD)

Argues that contrary to present notions, both pre-school and child-care facilities are considered important and beneficial by lower income groups as well as by upper- and middle-income groups and that consequently both forms of service should be supported by the Commonwealth Government in Australia. (SS)

Discusses the importance of block play--including its contributions to perceptual, fine motor, and cognitive development--and components of a good preschool block play area. Recommends unit blocks complemented by stacking blocks, toys, beads, cubes, and Brio wooden toys. Makes recommendations for space, size, locations and connections to other…

Reviews a position paper developed by the Association for Childhood Education International which is founded on the principle of developmental child care, a term implying the protective and child-maintaining aspect of care plus the stimulating role of developmental education. Suggests implications this position paper and similar papers hold for…

Examines the essential characteristics of teachers of young children: good physical health, kindness, courage, integrity, self-awareness, a theoretical framework in which to see children, the equivalent of a college graduate's general knowledge, warm respect for and courtesy to children, trust in children, discretion, intuition, professional…

Responses of day care and home care children to an adult dropping items, banging her knee, giving the children opportunity to leave the larger of two prizes for a peer, and asking for donation to sick children were compared. Prosocial reasoning in these 47- to 75-month-old children was assessed via their responses to stories in which help was…

As more mothers have entered the labor force, services for preschoolers have expanded rapidly, though somewhat haphazardly. Firm political and economic commitments must be made if organized child care is to meet parents' and children's needs. (Author/GC)