This report presents an analysis of data used to evaluate Project CHILD (Curriculum to Heighten Intellectual and Language Development). The curriculum was designed for use with disadvantaged preschool children and was field tested in two schools in central Harlem, New York City. The objectives and methods of the curriculum, as well as background…

This paper discusses the meaning of environmental deprivation, specifically the effects of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences on education. Objectives are also given for a Head Start and Follow Through program. A child is environmentally deprived to the extent that he has not developed his intellectual ability and a positive self-image.…

Evidence indicates that disadvantaged children are intellectually inferior to middle class children at the time they enter school; and as school continues, the gap widens. The environment of the disadvantaged child lacks much of the opportunity and stimulation for intellectual growth present in the middle and upper class environments and generally…

Brief descriptions are provided of four Ohio Follow Through programs, each of which is pilot-testing a different teaching model. The programs are: Akron, The PEP-IPI Model; Cleveland, The Responsive Environment Model; Dayton, The Engelmann-Becker Model; and Martins Ferry, The Mathemagenic Activities Model. The PEP (Primary Education Project)-IPI…

Describes how the aging of the American population is extending the range of educational tasks, increasing the responsibilities of educational agencies, and bringing new agencies into the educational scene. (Author/LF)

One of a series of reports evaluating the Durham Education Improvement Program, this study concentrates on assessing the influence of age-of-entry on subsequent changes in performance on intelligence tests. Changes in intelligence quotient scores for two age-at-entry groups (3-, 4-, 5-year-olds combined and 6-year-olds) were correlated after one…

A study was conducted to investigate the predictive validity of parents' ability to attend to their children (ATA) on intelligence and to determine to what extent ATA and social class variables, in combination, can account for the discrepancy in the IQ scores of children of different races. Ss were 700 Head Start children. The criterion variables…

This report describes Home Start, a sequential, highly individualized enrichment program for disadvantaged 2- to 5-year-olds. The program, based on the theoretical need hierarchy of Maslow, focuses on community and family dynamics. Home Start encouraged interdisciplinary collaboration, using the services of psychologists, social workers, home…

This study explores (a) the relative effects of the Learning to Learn Program on the educational competencies of the experimental children (E) who attended the Learning to Learn Program as compared to control children (C) who participated in traditional preschool and primary grade programs; and (b) the developmant and longitudinal educational…

Relates two strategies of compensatory education to the origins of educational deficits. (JM)

It is suggested in this paper that United States public education systematically denies children's intellectual rights. Problems and impediments in the way of implementing change are noted. (Author/AM)

In this report, the formation and use of a creative movement program by a group of Israeli educators as a means of promoting intellectual development in culturally disadvantaged children, mostly of North African and Asian origin, is described. The theoretical framework of the experiment, based on the work of Piaget and other educational…