This document praises the Comprehensive Preschool Education and Child Day-Care Act and advocates an equally comprehensive collateral program of research and evaluation. In order to avoid delay in starting preschool and child care programs, the research undertaken should be of the kind called evaluative research in which program and research are in…

This study attempted to develop a diagnostic-prescriptive curriculum program to improve the school readiness of disadvantaged preschoolers. The language development patterns of 32 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds were diagnosed by use of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA). Teachers were trained to use this information to provide an…

The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the Canadian Mothercraft Society are running a day care program for infants (from 3 to 30 months of age) designed to facilitate their cognitive, personality, and social development through personalized adult-child interaction, guided learning situations, free play, and specialized care.…

This study investigated the comparative effects of 2 distinct school environments (state university campus schools and local public schools) on the verbalization and socialization skills of disadvantaged kindergarten children with and without a Head Start background. If significant effects occurred, it was hoped that environmental factors that…

As part of an early child care program for migrant children in Colorado, 2-day workshops were held to train migrant women--mostly Spanish-speaking Mexican Americans--as teachers and aides for 25 infant education centers operated in public schools throughout the summer of 1969. Major goals were 1) to change attitudes toward the importance of…

This activity book provides a list of varied resources available to students as they work through the instructional objectives at the Fort Lincoln school. Items listed include equipment and supplies ordered for the school, books, selected offerings from the metropolitan community, selected programs provided by the D.C. Public Schools, science and…

Prepared for the White House Conference on Children (December 1970), this booklet reports on a mothers' training program in Urbana, Illinois--one of 34 promising programs on childhood education. The training program is a tutorial program at the University of Illinois involving both mother and child; the program tries to demonstrate that mothers in…

Although a disproportionate number of children having difficulties in school come from families of impoverished socioeconomic backgrounds, it cannot be assumed that cultural deprivation causes school problems without specifying how, when, and why. The application of psychological and other social scientific techniques to investigate these matters…

Two special classrooms were provided for 20 students at the preschool and kindergarten level who had severe hearing impairments. Two teachers and two instructional aides condcted classroom activities centered around sense training (visual, tactile, and auditory experiences). Speech development and communication skills were desired outcomes. To…

Designed to gather evidence on the effectiveness of an intensive year of specific curriculum intervention on a severely disadvantaged population, the study involved 10 groups of approximately 14 psychosocially disadvantaged 5-year-olds each, for whom Stanford-Binet IQ scores were 50-85. Over 3 years, three groups were exposed to a diagnostic…

The main objective of the Primary Education Project (PEP) is to develop an individualized early learning program to serve children from age three through the primary grades. The 1968-1969 school year represented the first year during which a formal PEP program was implemented. This report describes the results of this first year. The PEP early…

This document evaluates the first three years of a preschool project in Kalamazoo School District which was funded by Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The program aims to maximize the potential of each preschool child and to involve parents and community agencies in the project. This report describes the objectives of the…

Citations and abstracts for 192 theses the research for which was in the areas of preschool, elementary, secondary, college, and adult reading are included. Volume 29 of "Dissertation Abstracts" (July 1968 through June 1969) was reviewed, studies on reading were selected, and an abstract was prepared including information on the procedures,…

A 3-month pilot project was undertaken at the University of Texas to gain experience in administering the Cynthia Buchanan Language Program (Buchanan, 1967) and to test its effectiveness in making meaningful changes in the language development of disadvantaged Mexican-American preschoolers. A group of 114 Mexican-American children were chosen as…

This document reviews the findings of relatively small, controlled, long-term evaluations of preschool programs in various parts of the country. It is an attempt to clarify unresolved issues arising from the Westinghouse Learning Corporation Report on the impact of Project Head Start. Generally, this review focuses on the following question: What…