Many state legislators are currently debating the issue of providing universal preschool education. This document analyzes the governmental role in preschool education and concludes that government should remain neutral with regard to the provision of such programs. The paper describes steps many states have taken to implement universal preschool…

This book contains descriptions of 172 games for children from toddlerhood through adolescence, and is designed as a guide for parents, teachers, and play leaders. Following an introduction describing the child's relationship to games, the book is divided into two parts. Part 1 is aimed at toddlers and contains over 90 circle games, singing games,…

Bright Start is a preschool program designed to assist caregivers and educators of children ages 2 through 5 years become optimal facilitators of young children's learning through enhancing the quality of their interaction with children and through providing mediated learning experiences. This paper examines the cognitive approach to preschool…

This resource book is intended to aid parents of children aged 2 to 5 years in teaching geography. The book offers ideas about how to encourage and give direction to enable young children to develop the vocabulary, awareness, and curiosity necessary to lay the foundation for the study of geography. Suggested activities are included and are…

The practicum developed and implemented an inservice teacher education program to improve services to exceptional children in group settings based on a newly developed resource manual, two workshop series, and observation/evaluation of teachers in their classes on a bimonthly basis over a period of 8 months. Eighty-nine preschool teachers…

This position paper offers recommendations related to problems and promises of early childhood education in the public schools. Issues of particular concern to school boards in the state of New York are considered. A summary of recommendations and introductory background information are followed by a section that focuses on child care and the…

This guide presents information about 182 periodicals that consistently carry materials about reading. The information in the guide, provided by editors of the periodicals in response to a questionnaire, is in two lists. The first list offers information about each periodical's editor, address, and editorial procedures. The second list, presented…

A study examined the association between specific features of the preschool language context and the development of children's literacy-related language skills. Teachers were interviewed about the frequency with which they read to student groups during the school day; their preferences about literature; and the nature of their curriculum. Teachers…

This nationwide study surveyed facilities in local Head Start programs in fall, 1990. A total of 602 of the 1,857 programs, or 32 percent, responded to the voluntary survey. The survey included questions on the type of program, enrollment, and budget; lease or rental arrangements and rental costs; numbers and conditions of centers and classrooms;…

This guide presents information about 175 periodicals that consistently carry materials about reading. The information in the guide, provided by editors of the periodicals in response to a questionnaire, is contained in two lists. The first list offers information about each periodical's editor, address, and editorial procedures. The second list,…

This study assessed estimation skills on both static and transformation (conservation) tasks on numerosities ranging from 3 to 16, and included addition and subtraction trials to control for response bias. A total of 148 four- and five-year-old children estimated the number of balls of yarn sewn on elastic straps, and participated in 1 addition, 1…

This study investigated preschoolers' understanding of three parental emotions: happiness, sadness, and anger. The study also examined relationships of these understandings to preschoolers' emotional competence. Subjects, 70 children with a mean age of 55 months, were presented with a dollhouse and were encouraged to imagine that the dollhouse…

SoonerStart is a collaborative interagency effort that provides services to approximately 2,000 developmentally delayed infants and toddlers in Oklahoma. In rural north-central Oklahoma, the early intervention team consists of a regional coordinator, resource coordinator (case manager), child development specialist (lead clinician), nurse, speech…

This document presents an annotated bibliography of instructional materials that deal with subjects relating to holidays. Topics include Christmas, Earth Day, Easter, Halloween, Hannukah, Independence Day, Martin Luther King Day, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, and "More than One Holiday." Works cited include illustrated stories, poems,…

This paper addresses the role of quality age-appropriate television programming in preschoolers' lives. The paper describes a developmental investigation of preschoolers' knowledge of polite behavior routines and their modeling of host-quest behaviors from a special episode to the television program "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood." The…