The paper summarizes a study of the educational environments of profoundly handicapped pupils enrolled in special education classes relative to the types of learning experiences, social opportunities, and services provided by three teachers in the San Diego, California, school district. The teachers were all in their first year working with the…

The development and validation of the Home Learning Environment Profile (HLEP) are outlined. The HLEP instrument was designed to assess successful preschool home educational programs for Hawaiian families. The instrument covers sociodemographic, cultural, and environmental factors of Hawaiian families. After an extensive review of published…

Education Consolidation Improvement Act (ECIA) Chapter 1 programs were conducted in 29 elementary schools in the Wichita (Kansas) Public Schools during the 1983-1984 school year. Major programs were corrective reading, mathematics, and prekindergarten. Smaller programs for children in neglected and delinquent institutions were conducted. A reduced…

Prekindergarten Head Start teachers were trained to administer the Learning Accomplishment Profile (LAP), an objective check list of development in seven areas: gross motor, fine motor manipulation and writing, social, self help, cognitive, and language skills. Data were collected from separate groups of 3, 4, and 5-year old children to ascertain…

Providing supplemental services to educationally deprived students, the program consisted of coordination for more effective learning and communication skills components composed of a kindergarten program, a reading program for grades 1-4, and a support services program; and a "Happy Talk" component designed to help parents of preschool…

Using a test-observe-test design with a sample of 29 4-year-old children, this study examined the relationship between children's activity choices in a typical progressive nursery school and their intellectual performance, socioeconomic status (SES), and sex. An attempt was made to identify those experiential factors associated with changes in…

This report from the Consortium for Longitudinal Studies summarizes findings of current analyses of the educational outcomes of low-income, primarily black children who did or did not participate in experimental early education programs in the 1960s. Data from 11 research projects provided information on approximately 3,000 low-income children.…

The results of the secondary analysis of data obtained in a study of Head Start graduates in the public schools are summarized in this report. Due to unforseen circumstances, the original longitudinal research design was not fully implemented, and the study was constrained to one administration of a test battery to first-grade students. The…

A two-class preschool program for two to six year old Yavapai children was developed by the Ft. McDowell Indian Community to include activities and experiences to meet the special educational needs of youngsters on the Fort McDowell Indian Reservation, Arizona. The five program components included: (1) classroom and training activity to promote…

The second of three volumes, this document provides a description of the coding system, the rules and the procedures followed in interpreting and classifying 4,896 statements of desired program effects on Head Start children. The statements had been identified and rated by parents, staff and teachers in Input Workshops conducted by the Head Start…

This colloquim report contains papers submitted to the Child Development Associate (CDA) Consortium by a panel of 12 black educators who represented different disciplines and differing black perspectives. Panelists discussed the education of preschool teachers with specific reference to competency areas, training programs for preschool staff,…

This report describes the goals and results of a 2-year project which employed 20 male high school students from low income families for two hours per week as teacher assistants in seven day care centers and preschool programs, thereby providing male contact for children from female-dominated, single-parent families enrolled in female-dominated…

This paper defines the "invisible pedagogy," a teaching model used in British infant schools, and discusses its relationship to middle class culture, working class culture, and "visible" pedagogy. The invisible pedagogy is characterized by several features including (1) implicit rather than explicit control over the child by…

This paper traces the development of the Maternal Teaching Style Instrument (MTSI) at the Demonstration and Research Center for Early Education (DARCEE). The MTSI was developed to document changes in maternal behavior; to better understand the role of maternal behavior as it influences children's cognitive growth and development and to redefine…

This state of the art review and research strategy paper identifies some of the educational, political and social issues involved in bilingual-bicultural (bl/bc) education for Spanish speaking/surnamed (ss/s) children and makes recommendations for more refined research. Aspects of bl/bc education for ss/s children included in the paper are: (1)…