Although formal recognition of the educational and economic problems of rural America came with the establishment of federal assistance programs during the 1960s and 1970s, the level of knowledge and expertise has not kept pace with the desire to help. If educators, researchers, and government personnel expect to have any success in dealing with…

SEVENTY-ONE CHILDREN WERE ENROLLED IN THE KICKAPOO-NORTH CANADIAN PROJECT FOR A PERIOD OF 2 MONTHS OR LONGER. THIS REPORT IS DIVIDED INTO 7 SECTIONS AND 2 APPENDICES. PART I CONTAINS A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROGRESS OF EACH CHILD DURING THE PROJECT. PART II CONTAINS BIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE STAFF. PART III CONTAINS A LIST OF SPECIAL…

A two-part report on the Multicultural Home-School Workers project in Vancouver (Canada) contains a brief overview of the project's background and an analysis of data collected to evaluate the duties performed by the project workers. Part I, a report by the Vancouver Home-School Co-ordinating Committee, explains the motivation and means of funding…

The goal of the Families Learning Together Program is to design, systematize, field test, evaluate and publish a dual-focus curriculum for teaching adults and children. Adult basic education, parenting, and daily life skills were to be taught to adults as these adults simultaneously taught their children attitudes and skills of the program are…

Students who master the material in this Child Development Associate (CDA) training module should know how to (1) involve a parent in a center activity, (2) foster cooperativeness at a staff meeting and (3) identify a community resource and show how it can be used to benefit the classroom. Both teacher and trainee materials are provided in the…

THIS REPORT IS A STUDY IN DEPTH OF NORTHFIELD, VERMONT. IT WAS UNDERTAKEN IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE PLACE OF HEAD START CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES IN THEIR CULTURAL CONTEXT AND TO EXAMINE THESE CHILDREN'S INTERACTIONS WITH SOCIETY AND WITH EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES. THREE MAJOR SECTIONS DESCRIBE (1) THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE…

This paper presents an evaluation of the Teach-A-Tot Children's Center, a demonstration project designed to encourage the development of innovative programs in early childhood education. The evaluation encompassed six areas of program functioning: (1) linguistic, intellectual, and social development; (2) the benefits of full time versus part time…

Exploratory case study research, conducted in selected Individually Guided Instruction (IGE) elementary home-school environments, focused on four objectives: describe IGE implementation and home-school-community relations, explain objective one in political terms, generate hypotheses, and make recommendations. Approximately 50 interviews were…

This manual, Part 1 of a two-volume series, is a compilation of instructional tasks designed to be used in the home by parents with their children. These home learning activities are one component of the Florida Model of Follow Through Programs. Each instructional task is designed for use in the home by a Parent Educator (P.E.) who has already…

Attendance in "open" versus "traditional" schools is shown to have small positive effects on student satisfaction with school life and student self-reliance, while differences in family authority structures are found to be of much more importance for these outcomes when student social class characteristics are statistically controlled. Two…

Research was conducted in a rural Hawaiian school and community among kindergarten Polynesian-American children and their families in order to determine what situational attributes and home environments were associated with better school performance. Classroom behavioral observations were conducted, the teacher was asked to evaluate the student,…

The focus of this paper is on the immediate and long-range advantages of parent involvement, the definitions and implications of varying levels of parent involvement in child care center operations, and the general means by which a chosen level of involvement might be achieved. The advantages of parent involvement are discussed briefly in terms of…

The Anglo-American Conference on Education for the Less Privileged was held recently in Oxfordshire, England. Fourteen representatives from the United States met with 11 British conferees. The purpose of the conference was to examine the present character and availability of education (preprimary to 18 years), including vocational and technical…

The purpose of this model is the implementation of a multi-faceted Family Involvement-Communication System (FICS) which has as its major thrust the involvement of the family as active partners in school experiences. The model provides training and experiences. The model provides training and experiences for teachers, principals, parents, and…

The aim of the study was to discover a satisfactory predictor of residential mobility among inner city families in light of the effect which the high rate of student transfer has upon curriculum development, staff morale, and student scholastic achievement. The sample of 358 families was administered a questionnaire dealing with demography,…