The present study was developed in order to help clarify some issues concerning the "at home" or "early entry" effect upon the child's development. The special problems that this study identified as valuable in the child's development were reading readiness and emotional "well-being". Five groups of young children matched for age, socioeconmoc…

The Hamden Mental Health Service staff collaborated with the police on a joint research project concerning runaway youth. The data suggest that adolescents who run away come from broken homes where disruption during preadolescence has been associated with parental separation and remarriage. These adolescents often exhibit symptoms of depression…

This is the second of two reports dealing with the residential mobility patterns of children attending an urban elementary public school in Toronto, Canada. The present study aimed to discover whether a significant relationship exists between residential mobility and academic achievement. Children of the 158 parents interviewed for the study were…

To increase the educability of preschool children from low income homes, the Demonstration and Research Center for Early Education (DARCEE) devised a home visiting program to teach the mother to be an effective teacher of her child at home. The DARCEE guide is intended as one resource to help provide information for persons in training to be home…

This bibliography, compiled to alert educators to documents on infant studies, combines entries from the abstract journal, "Research in Education (RIE)" and journal article citations from "Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE)." The bibliography includes all the citations concerning infants from these 1970-71 ERIC publications, excluding…

This study assessed the effect on reading achievement scores of school-recommended reading activities completed in the home by first graders as assisted by older members of the family during non-school hours and apart from the school program. The families of 90 first graders from a high socioeconomic level and small urban-residential district were…

This critique of Jencks' book on inequality suggests that Jencks and other authors, in criticizing the concept of equal educational opportunity, have considered only one or two dimensions of that concept. In Jencks' case, the report notes, equality was measured only in vocational/economic terms, with the political, social, moral, intellectual, or…

This article reports a study investigating deviant behavior in normal families. It examines nonproblem children and their families in their homes. It provides information on rates of deviant behavior for children without identified behavioral difficulties and the interaction patterns of family members who deal with these children. It analyzes: (1)…

This paper focuses its attention on the evolving communes in many North American cities and their members. The purpose was to learn as much as possible about how people live under this one particular set of conditions, the criteria for success or failure of this life style, and the implications for society and the future. This is an…

Developed a model of individuation in family relationships focused on communicative processes. Expressions of four dimensions of the model (self-esteem, separateness, permeability, and mutuality) were predicted to be positively associated with identity exploration in adolescents. Analysis of observations of families in a Family Interaction Task…

Examines six major preconditions for literacy that are rooted in the home environment and discusses some of the implications of this home literacy environment for schools. (Author/PCB)

Interviews reveal that home schooling is both a pedagogical decision and a public declaration of the importance of the family. Parents' socialization into home schooling is defined by the political and legal climate of their state and school district. Restrictions of home schooling will not solve the parents' dissatisfaction with traditional…

Examines relations among early social and familial experience, social problem-solving skills, and social competence in the classroom, in sample of 46 children, aged four and five years, from economically distressed backgrounds. Finds family experience predictive of both social competence and problem solving. (Author/RWB)

A four-and-a-half-year longitudinal experiment reconsidered the contribution of organic impairment to the genesis of mild mental retardation among disadvantaged children. It was hypothesized that nonoptimal perinatal conditions might result in deficits that increase a child's vulnerability to environmental risk factors. Study results supported the…

Examines the reciprocal relationship between the home environment and the development of 148 slow learning adolescents over a three-year period, assessing such factors as child-rearing attitudes, educationally relevant stimuli and opportunities, and psychosocial climate and environmental press of the home. (HOD)