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Collins, Raymond C.; And Others – 1990
This report presents the key findings and recommendations of the Advisory Panel for the Head Start Evaluation Design Project. The principal audiences for the report are: (1) leadership and staff of the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families (ACYF) who have administrative responsibility for Head Start; and (2) local Head Start programs.…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Evaluation Methods, Financial Support, Preschool Education
Doll, Russell C. – Education for the Disadvantaged Child, 1974
Argues that the cumulative effect of early non-school related influences indicates that concentrating too heavily on school intervention may perpetuate the schools' ineffectiveness and reduce the possibility that school intervention will effect the child's academic achievement or development of skills needed to break the poverty cycle. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Environment, Early Childhood Education, Environmental Influences
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Curtis, Audrey; Blatchford, Peter – Educational Research, 1981
Describes a project with two aims: (1) to develop, with the help of practicing teachers, strategies and ideas that would be of benefit to young socially handicapped children, and (2) to evaluate these strategies in a controlled environment. (CT)
Descriptors: Child Development, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Education
1990
In the fall of 1989, the National Head Start Association convened a panel of distinguished advisors in an effort to develop recommendations for the future of Head Start. The panel met for 6 months to hear expert opinion and discuss task force reports and relevant policy documents. Over 70 witnesses testified at three hearings held in Washington,…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Quality, Financial Support, Guidelines
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1993
In anticipation of the 1994 reauthorization of the Head Start Act, this oversight hearing sought testimony from California county government grantees managing groups of Head Start facilities, program directors, teachers, parents, and other participants. Following introductory comments by subcommittee members, Andrew Kennedy, senior Head Start…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Needs, Educational Quality, Federal Aid
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. – 1972
A review of kindergarten programs (state, private, parochial and federally assisted) is set forth in four sections: (1) kindergarten programs in Kentucky public graded schools, (2) non-district public, private and parochial graded schools, (3) kindergarten and nursery school enrollment in private pre-school centers, and (4) federally-supported…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Finance, Enrollment, Kindergarten
Peters, Donald L.; Stein, Nancy L. – 1966
This handbook is a response to the information problems that may arise in the planning of a Head Start program. It is especially designed for use in San Mateo County, California. It purports to bring together an explanation of the requirements for Head Start programs and suggests how these requirements might best be met with the resources…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Programs, Enrichment Activities, Guides
Laurence, Mary Ann; And Others – 1990
Collected in this report are context, input, process, and product evaluations of the early childhood education (ECE) programs of the Des Moines Independent Community School District. Context evaluations concern: (1) the Des Moines Preschool Program; (2) the School-age Child Care Program; (3) the Cowles Children's Center, a full-day preschool/child…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Formative Evaluation
Morris, Mary; Smith, Allen – 1977
This site visitors' manual is part of a series of documents on the evaluation of Project Developmental Continuity (PDC), a Head Start demonstration program aimed at providing educational and developmental continuity between children's Head Start and primary school experiences. The PDC evaluation documents and analyzes the process of program…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Data Collection, Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education
Zigler, Edward – 1971
A national indifference to children is indicated by the system of foster child care and by the treatment of mental retardates. Another manifestation is the attack on Head Start. Criticism based on the program's failure to raise standardized intelligence or aptitude scores is misplaced. Head Start is a broad developmental program having many…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Development, Child Development Centers, Childhood Needs
Zigler, Edward; Muenchow, Susan – 1992
This book describes the history of the Head Start program. Encouraged by Sargent Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, in February, 1965, the Head Start Planning Commission presented a proposal for a program to the Johnson administration, which promoted it as a nationwide program to serve half a million poor children. By the…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Health, Compensatory Education, Day Care
Frost, Joe L.; Rowland, G. Thomas – 1971
The contents of this book are as follows: Chapter I, "Human Deprivation: Causes and Consequences," examines the following topics: eugenics versus euthenics in school; poverty; Mexican-American poverty in the United States; the American Indian; the black American; deprivation; and, subjective deprivation. Chapter II, "Infant Learning and…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience, Elementary Education
Federal City Council, Washington, DC. – 1989
This report presents a comprehensive plan, developed by the D.C. Committee on Public Education, to help strengthen the public schools in the District of Columbia. Chapter 1, "An Introduction: A Vision of the Future," contains the following sections: (1) "Description of the Committee"; (2) "Philosophy and Beliefs of the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Curriculum, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Snider, Marie – 1972
This materials preparation guide is one of seven publications designed to implement the Home-Oriented Preschool Education (HOPE) program which uses televised, mobile classroom, and parent instruction to educated 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds. The materials production team which provides all the basic materials for the program is described. Materials…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Curriculum Guides, Educational Objectives, Educational Television
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Jablonsky, Adelaide – 1971
A questionnaire was sent to 350 people representing heads of Federal agencies dealing with education, all state commissioners of education, superintendents of schools of the largest cities, heads of selected professional education organizations, outstanding community leaders, university researchers, directors of some ERIC clearinghouses, regional…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Community Involvement, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development
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