Those who advocate day care seem to disregard the cautionary tales of the history of day care in this country. (DM)

A kindergarten teacher describes how she utilizes parent volunteers in the classroom and gives guidelines for professionalizing'' them. (SP)

Describes 5 levels of parent involvement in schools (audience, teacher of the child, volunteer, trained worker, and participant in decision making), with details of a follow through program that tries to involve parents at all levels. (Author/SP)

A useful resource for child care agencies is the cooperative, mother-run preschool, which offers mothers perspective, identity, emotional support, and socially approved respite from their children. The association with other mothers has the greatest positive effect. (MH)

Describes local Head Start programs designed to provide a system of comprehensive health care for children to receive after they leave Head Start. (NH)

Discusses several aspects of the decentralization issue facing so many large school systems today. (AN)

This study attempted to determine the effects of planned parental participation and immediate feedback concerning homework assignments on student achievement in and attitudes toward arithmetic. (CP)

The school psychologist should attempt to influence the course of study pursued by the students under his care and should make every effort to follow up all cases under his supervision to determine whether his recommendations have produced positive results. (CK)

A view of open education is given in this anecdotal report of visits to primary schools in England. (NH)

Focuses on recent Federal legislation involving employment, as well as the political attitudes of the President and the American Association of School Administrators. Progress and problems relative to school desegregation are included in short reports from 20 states. (DM)

Teen-age girls can be helped to solve their problems and reduce their hostility towards adults through the aid of an understanding counselor, who will neither breach their confidences nor scold them for their attitudes. (CK)

A mother remembers her own school days and asks whether teachers do not spend too much time on the psychological evaluation of their students and not enough on teaching. (MM)

The use of token-reinforcer systems is discussed, with particular reference to the Staats Motivation Achievement Reading Technique. (NH)