A subsidiary purpose of this study was to initially explore the value of visual representations of family life as tools to improve the family perceptions of preschool disadvantaged children. (Authors)

Reviewed is the preliminary edition of the Tests of Basic Experiences, a battery of tests for preschool and kindergarten children designed to indicate how well a child's experiences have prepared him for scholastic activities. (GW)

Studied was the relationship of sex and race to the performance of 134 learning disabled and disadvantaged children on four subtests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children. (DB)

Probes at some of the conclusions reached by Jencks on the effects of heredity and environment on academic achievement. (JF)

To examine the relationship of the Flowers-Costello Tests of Central Auditory Abilities and the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, 20 ethnic minority kindergarten children were administered both tests. (Author)

The underlying philosophies and the teaching methods used in several Israeli mathematics programs for disadvantaged students are explained and described; a study that used a psychological approach concerned with the rehabilitation of the impaired intelligence of disadvantaged children also is discussed. (DT)

A high frequency of unmet medical needs and a breakdown in family structure among low-income preschool children were discovered among ten youngsters enrolled in a demonstration day care project. This paper reports on how a child care center attempted to meet the developmental needs of such children. (Editor)

Youth in the ghetto appear to make rational economic decisions (from their individual and family point of view) by not investing in education; unless the quality of education is improved for lower classes, income grants are unlikely to have any effect on this form of investment in human capital. (Author)

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

Outlines of a program to reconstruct the Social Studies curriculum to more adequately fit the needs, interests, and work-ways of disadvantaged children. (Author/RY)

Describes a Department of Defense program in which, each year since 1968, the Federal Government has taken an increasingly large number of impressionable ghetto children, and attempted to mold them into right-thinking individuals"--as defined by the Department of Defense. (RJ)

Argues that it is imperative to develop very early in an inner city child's education those physical skills that have a high potential for carry-on and carry-over value that these students can utilize during their leisure time; that if these skills are neglected to be taught, there is every possibility that the child will never be exposed to them…

Author reviews the past decade in early childhood education and proposes strategies for the future. (MB)

A scholarship program for promising disadvantaged students in private secondary schools was evaluated through interviews, faculty reports, and testing in a two year follow-up of 82 boys. (Author)

A pilot school health project delivering services through an Office of Economic Opportunity-University operated Neighborhood Health Center, has utilized a health paraprofessional, the school health assistant. (Author)