This report presents the results of a study from July 1965 to July 1969 on the effects of year-long prekindergarten programs for disadvantaged children involving eight school districts in New York State and approximately 1,800 children. The study focused on factors which the schools considered important and major objectives of their programs.…

An experiment using an analysis of the distinctive features of lower case letters of the English alphabet to predict high- and low-confusible alternates for each letter was reported. Ten disadvantaged 5-year-old Negro children served as their own controls, circling in booklets the letters seen after a 1-second presentation by memory drum. The…

Compensatory education for disadvantaged preschool children includes, as one of its central components, a planned intervention program which is to provide the deprived child with linguistic skills comparable to those acquired naturally by children with a middle-class background. The hypothesis guiding the design and implementation of this study…

This final report covers a three-year demonstration program that served primarily as a practicum for students in a leadership training program. In addition, some research was conducted. The demonstration portion of the leadership training program essentially provided for two basic classes of 16 three- and four-year-old preschool disadvantaged…

Reviews research in Britain and the United States on intervention with deprived preschool children and describes programs introduced in monitoring the problems of working with the staffs of six London (England) day nurseries. Particular difficulties in the project approach and implications for action research as a method are discussed. (MF)

Author describes several studies which show that Sesame Street does not prepare poverty children for first grade and does not narrow the achievement gap that now exists between the poor and the middle-class child. (Author/CB)

The study analyzed some of the problems of measuring intelligence and verbal learning ability among Mexican-American preschoolers. (Author)

Investigates the resistance to temptation of disadvantaged 5-year-old Negro children in a game-like situation. (WY)

Examines the sociopolitical circumstances surrounding the formulation, passage in Congress, and presidential veto of the Comprehensive Child Development Act of 1971 (S.1512). Argues that policy is often influenced by several issues that motivate political action; in the case of child care legislation, children are only one factor among many.…

The social, imaginative, and self-regulatory behavior of 141 children in Head Start centers was observed before and during one of the following four experimental treatments: (a) neutral films, (b) prosocial TV only, (c) prosocial TV plus related play materials, and (d) prosocial TV plus related materials plus teacher training for rehearsal using…

Over its 40 years, Head Start has evolved from serving a population of primarily Spanish-speaking English-language learners to working with children and families who speak more than 140 different languages. In some Head Start classrooms, as many as 10 different languages are used by the children. In other classrooms, a majority of the…