This report describes an attempt to break the socioeconomic educational poverty cycle of rural black children in Williamsburg County, South Carolina. Early childhood education was identified as the area for the greatest concentration of effort. Training and retraining of instructional staff was mandated. Twenty-two kindergarten classes were placed…

The purpose of this document is twofold: (1) to describe an experimental parent education program and (2) to describe how such a program will be evaluated. Parents can positively influence preschool children's perceptual, language, and cognitive development with direction. In this project teachers are released in the afternoon to teach parents how…