There are no easy solutions to the problem of building an outstanding basic skills program for handicapped children. This article analyzes reasons why children fail, describes the characteristics of outstanding schools and explains how teachers and administrators can achieve excellence. (Author/CB)

Family, friend and neighbor care has frequently been characterized in the media, and even in the early care and education field, as "substandard, unregulated care," a "fall-back" position when parents can not find or afford a regulated setting. However, up until quite recently, there was virtually no research to support any…

Evidence indicates that kind of intensive in-home intervention described produces positive changes likely to be maintained in families in which the mother has some self-esteem, a satisfactory relationship with her own mother or a desire for a better relationship, and an adequate social support system. (Author/BEF)

Describes an instructional method for college marriage and family courses which uses theoretical and practical experience in understanding family relationships, personal growth, and family structure. (Author/CK)

Notes arguments supporting the importance of parent education to help parents become better teachers of their young children. Describes two projects of the Parents as Teachers Program (NPAT), one in the state of Missouri; the other, a related pilot project in Australia's New South Wales. Notes the positive evaluation results from Missouri's…

Presents an ecological theory of educational risk that conceptualizes this risk as discordant child-environment interaction that may occur in the classroom (microrisk), in the home (mesorisk), in the community (exorisk), and in the larger society (macrorisk). Discusses intervention strategies to reduce the prevalence of risk in each of these…

Reviews statistics on children in foster care. Examines the definition of foster care, the reasons children are placed in foster care, the various living arrangements that constitute foster care, and the rapid growth of the foster care population. (MDM)

Presents suggestions for integrating food experiences as a positive, sustaining part of the family lifestyle. Focuses on social graces and rituals related to special family meals and gatherings, on using tea parties to integrate family rituals and etiquette, and on family gardening. Describes ways children can participate in food acquisition and…

With the constant reminders of wars and other human degradation going on in the world, education for "caring" is more critically important than ever to our future (Noddings, 2002). Televised accounts of the war in Iraq leave most caring people devastated. Civilian and military deaths and casualties challenge people's faith in a peaceful and…

There was very little in common between Mary Wollstonecraft and Hannah More. For More and Wollstonecraft, and for many of their contemporaries, what women?s education lacked most significantly was order, method and system. Recent scholarly work on the Enlightenment has identified changes in attitudes towards women?s education, epitomized in the…

This article presents evaluation data from the Placement Prevention Program, created to meet the needs of students through integration of school, family, and community resources. The Placement Prevention Program relies on the integration of home, school, and community resources within a school district. The program began in 1996 with four goals:…

Life Skills Literacy (LSL) is a multidisciplinary intervention model that helps families living with limited resources (including poverty) achieve sustainable well-being. This model, based on ecological theory and a readiness for change framework, prepares people to learn from the program and teaches necessary life skills. The LSL project…

The author addresses the fact that many families with a borderline structure receive treatment throughout the life cycle. Serial episodic brief treatment is recommended, utilizing projective identification as an organizing principle to promote incremental change during each treatment episode. The author selects a child abuse case to review, that…

This paper draws upon evidence from a three-year longitudinal study of young children drawing across home, pre-school and school. The study shows how the belief systems of significant adults and more able peers/siblings impact upon the child's access to, use of and beliefs about drawing. Concentrating upon the children when in the Foundation Stage…