In September 2003, the Head Start Bureau, in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF), implemented the National Reporting System (NRS), the first nationwide skills test of over 400,000 4- and 5-year-old children. The NRS is intended to provide information on how well Head Start grantees are…

This snapshot of children on the California border examines the well-being of children along the U.S.-Mexico border, comparing California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. It indicates more than one-quarter of all California residents are foreign born (26%), compared to 8% of residents in non-border states. In Texas, the percentage of the population…

There is a class of largely ignored children for whom the crisis in American education means total noneducation or miseducation. The author examines a limited constitutional right to education which can be invoked to protect these neglected children. (Editor)

Reports on self-evaluation by one agency: the Jewish Children Bureau of Metropolitan Chicago. The evaluation conclusion is that the agency could justify its foster care placements on the basis of the data collected. (DP)

Describes a research program concerned with systematic printing instruction for kindergarten children. The program was field tested in low-income and middle class area schools. (DP)

The value of the program was the realization by the participants that they had a skill for which others would pay. They also gained practical experience in communication, record-keeping, and manners necessary in dealing with each other and with customers. (AG)

This comparative study of these two instruments indicates that they yield similar IQ scores when used in the assessment of disadvantaged preschool children. (Author)

The relationship between expressed and tested vocational interests is examined, together with differences in consistency for male and female students. (Author)

Identifies costs to individuals and to the government that are associated with failure to complete specified levels of schooling. (JF)

Out of his experience in teaching in slum schools the author stresses the way discipline is involved in teaching success. (Editor)

Taste of community college keeps potential dropouts in school. (Editor)

Because the reach to disadvantaged teens is so evolutionary this paper has included examples of service ranging from the near-traditional to truly innovative programs. The emphasis is on examples of service rather than evaluations. (36 references) (Author/NH)