High­-quality early care and education (ECE) relies on teacher training. However, state policies require that the ECE workforce attain only minimal preservice credentials, and the field needs more information about inservice professional development models that might effectively train teachers, no matter what their prior experience or education…

The Department of Defense (DoD) is committed to meeting the need for child care among military families. DoD supports the largest employer-sponsored system of high-quality child care in the country. Through accredited child development centers (CDCs), family child care (FCC) homes, youth centers, and other after-school programs, DoD currently…

Preparing foster children for school entry by focusing on the skills necessary to succeed in kindergarten calls for early intervention. However, existing programs to enhance school readiness have not been tailored to meet the educational, emotional, and psychological needs of foster children. This is the rationale behind development of the…

THE FAMILY IS FUNDAMENTAL TO THE CHILD'S DEVELOPMENT AND PARENTAL COOPERATION IN THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IS IMPORTANT. HOW TO INVOLVE PARENTS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS, BENEFICIAL TYPES OF PARENT PARTICIPATION, PRECAUTIONS TO BE TAKEN TO ASSURE THE SAFETY AND PROTECTION OF THE CHILDREN, AND SUPPLEMENTARY PARENT PROGRAMS ARE DISCUSSED. THE…

Legislative alternatives for providing a mechanism within State government to plan and coordinate early childhood programs are presented and analyzed. The alternatives addressed are: (1) placing early childhood responsibility in an existing agency; (2) creating a new office of child development as an independent State agency; and (3) creating a…

Interviews were conducted with 18 key management decision makers at the national level of the Parent and Child Center (PCC) program, and a wide variety of relevant providers and consumers of management information of the local level of the program. The purpose of the study was to develop recommendations for a management information system (MIS)…

Discusses the ways early childhood programs presently fit into community colleges, describes five related issues (i.e., the ambiguities of the early childhood field, the open-door policy, faculty responsibilities, power structures, and funding), and makes suggestions for further development of the community college/early childhood relationship.…

Discussed is a day program which has provided psychiatric treatment for 135 emotionally disturbed children under 5 years of age and their parents. (DB)

The planning and development of a new education center at Particino in Sicily is described. Based upon a maieutic approach to education, the program emphasizes both theoretical and practical processes of collective exploration which takes as its starting point the experience and intuition of the individual student. (SM)

Article discusses the origins and development of the Child Development Associate Program for training professional staff in child care. (GB)

In a program designed to instill confidence in students who have never before been given responsibility, individuals, formerly left to exist in a mental limbo, are taught that they can function as productive teachers. (Author/RK)

Results of the study indicate that the strongest abilities of the children graduated from Head Start centers are least correlated with readiness and achievement, while their weakest abilities are most correlated. The abilities that are highly related to school achievement are those in which they show the greatest deficiency. (Author)

Compares roles and functions of private, public school, and university reading clinics and discusses considerations to be made in organizing and evaluating the purposes and products of such clinics. (MD)