Discusses the First School, a primary school with an age of either five to eight or five to nine in which student and teacher share in a learning partnership that centres on the child. (Author/RK)

This article describes a frame of reference that teachers may find useful in clarifying different values and for value education. (Author/RK)

Progress report on the Association for Childhood Education to stimulate more constructive action for children at all levels. (DS)

In the few programs in which systematic evaluations have been conducted, quality day care has been found to be associated with intellectual gains, with the acquisition of adaptive social skills, and with healthy physical and emotional development. (Author)

Describes a tri-city program, Project Gifted, which was designed to meet the special needs of gifted and talented elementary children in three Rhode Island school systems. (Author/RK)

Author suggests that teachers must use appropriate questions to lead children toward exploring their inner world. (Author/RK)

Research indicates that socioeconomic deprivation tends to retard psychological development in early childhood by approximately one-and-one-half-years. (Author)

Findings underline the importance of being concerned with a child's adjustment early, since later performance tends to relate significantly to it. (Authors)

Results of the experiment provide support for the neo-Piagetian model. (Author)

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)

Describes the state of present national legislation that could affect early childhood development and discusses the implications of proposed legislation and programs for a national child development policy. (JH)