Child care and education are to some extent joint products of preschool programs, but public policy and research frequently approach these two goals independently. We present a benefit-cost analysis of a preschool program that provided intensive education during full-day child care. Data were obtained from a randomized trial with longitudinal…

This report traces the history and contributions of California's cooperative nursery schools (co-ops) within the context of the national growth in preschools. From the late 1870s through the 1920s, Froebel's ideas regarding the education of young children were evident in early nursery schools. By the late 1920s, nursery schools generally followed…

This book offers a comprehensive history of the parent cooperative preschool movement, a unique educational system that attained its peak in the 1950s and 1960s. The book uses interviews with pioneers and current members of parent cooperatives, official documents, periodicals, and scholarly publications to offer a history that weaves the…

Head Start and Early Head Start are comprehensive child development programs providing services to children from birth to age 5, pregnant women, and their families. The Head Start Program Performance Standards, mandatory regulations that grantees and delegate agencies must implement in order to operate a Head Start program, are designed to ensure…

Direct instruction (DI), a predetermined and systematic approach to the teaching/learning process, is advocated for teaching precise responses in the most efficient way to preschool handicapped students. Planning for DI includes specifying task sequences leading to a terminal behavior. Specific steps are followed in the presentation and curriculum…

Describes two experiments which examine the relationship between nurturance, attraction, and imitation. The results showed a significant relationship between nurturance and attraction and no relationship between nurturance and imitation. This suggests that positive relationships between nurturance and imitation are mediated by the child's…

The finding that young children do not prepare markers to help themselves relocate objects after a delay may have resulted from children's misunderstanding of the difficulty of unassisted retrieval. This study examined children's ability to recognize that they should prepare markers in two simplified object relocation tasks after they had been…

Citations in this bibliography provide a representative view of literature published during the past 5 years that may interest educators concerned with the subject of preschool education. Citations of publications from the ERIC database include either an annotation or an abstract. A selected bibliography of books on early childhood education and…

The final report reviews accomplishments of an outreach project designed to provide technical assistance and training to early childhood programs for handicapped children. The project features the Cognitively Oriented Preschool Curriculum, a developmental approach based on Piagetian theory and explained to build on the child's accomplishments. A…

The final 1980-81 report of Project PEECH (Program for Early Education of Children with Handicaps) Outreach provided technical assistance to Texas sites replicating the PEECH model. The model emphasizes training teachers to train parents to continue the individualized educational program activities with their mild to severely handicapped children…

Changes in the Federal Interagency Day Care Requirements (FIDCR) have produced a federal policy that increases cost and favors delivery through private non-profit day care centers. Requirements and implications of new rules based on the Title XX amendment to the Social Security Act (effective 10/1/80 and applicable to all programs in the DHEW,…

ENOUGH FUNDS SHOULD BE BUDGETED TO INSURE A QUALIFIED STAFF, ADEQUATE EQUIPMENT, AND THE BEST EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM THAT CAN BE PROVIDED FOR YOUNG CHILDREN. IN TERMS OF FACILITIES AND CIRCUMSTANCES, COSTS WILL VARY. THEREFORE, THE SAMPLE BUDGETS APPENDED ARE ONLY APPROXIMATE AND SUGGESTIVE. SAMPLE BUDGETS COVER MINIMUM INITIAL OPERATING EXPENSES FOR…

The paper focuses on various questions related to early intervention and education of delayed, disabled, and otherwise impaired children in integrated preschool and day care settings. Some areas of research are suggested. (Author/SBH)

This listing of syntactical structures was prepared for a research project being carried out under the auspices of the National Laboratory for Early Childhood Education. However, a number of people have found it useful for other purposes. Teachers who are attempting to use the "natural method" of accelerating language development find it helpful…