The State is the most appropriate level of government for planning, administering a comprehensive preschool education system. (Author/JN)

Suggests that the major determinant of ghetto behavior and social organization is the relationship between the local population and higher level institutions; explores the failure of an organization in a ghetto area set up to destroy abandoned houses. (Author/JM)

Describes the multi-purpose activities of Nelson and Colne College of Further Education in England. (MB)

Describes resources available to local school districts for establishing early childhood education programs and suggests that these various federal, State and local resources -- money, people, and tested practices -- be pooled for maximum effectiveness. (Author/JH)

This article describes alternatives currently being proposed by some Federal Congressional and Administration officials in response to growing dissatisfaction with the efforts of public schools in aiding educationally disadvantaged children. Legislation is being readied that would let private companies tackle the problem. (JH)

Describes Maryland program in which senior psychiatric residents work one day a week for a year as consultants to health departments, in effort to prepare them more adequately for work in the community. (CJ)

Describes diagnostic program for children and families, designed to overcome problems involving staff shortage and imbalance. Recommends approach pending independent followup evaluation. (CJ)

Describes how the aging of the American population is extending the range of educational tasks, increasing the responsibilities of educational agencies, and bringing new agencies into the educational scene. (Author/LF)

Special problems arise in a group foster home for emotionally disturbed children when the foster parents have children of their own. Many difficulties may develop as their own children try to adjust to sharing the home. (Editor)

Author states that regional accrediting agencies need to establish new boundaries of general accreditation responsibilities to respond to new issues and problems. (IR)

Discusses the role of the caseworker in providing support to children experiencing separation from their families and emphasizes the need to recognize that there are differences between those separation experiences dictated by the needs of children and those dictated by arbitrary or noncasework factors. (AJ)