Reported were the results of a project which established a cluster of family day care homes in Hawaii in which caregivers were selected, trained, and provided with supportive services and salaries. The primary objective of the program was to provide a replicable, high quality program for preschool children that would maximize social, emotional,…

This report describes and evaluates a bilingual early education intervention program, designed to provide children with successful experiences, using the concept of responsive environment in language development (English and Spanish) and in cognitive and affective development. Instructional, community-parental involvement, staff development, and…

The effect of classroom environment on Head Start, preschool and primary grade children is examined in this study which organizes the results of a number of selected studies. The research strategies employed in these studies included observations in specified programs (in-class or by video-tape), tightly-controlled classroom experimentation…

Data available from the Fall and Spring administration of the Stanford Achievement Test: Intermediate I: Form X and the Otis-Lennon Mental Ability Test for all Title I pupils in the State of New Hampshire plus a random sample for the entire state, made possible the item-by-item comparison of Fall and Spring performance on the same groups of…

The annotated bibliography on early childhood intervention for the culturally different contains approximately 60 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents published from 1966 to 1974 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources Information Center…

Conducted at Father Flanagan's Boys Home, the study investigated the relationship between a "teacher-advisor" educational program and students' attitudes toward school and toward classroom climates. Two methods of training were investigated: the Teacher-Advisory Training Program and the Teacher Effectiveness Training Program. A group of…

Two classes, each comprised of seventh and eighth grade students, are used to test the hypothesis that student participation in observing and solving real-life environmental problems increases positive changes in their attitudes toward school. Two methods of teaching urban environmental studies are used: an experimental community action approach…

This selective bibliography is one of nine documents compiled to provide titles and descriptions of useful and informative reading documents which were indexed into the ERIC system from 1966 to 1974. The 115 entries in this section of the bibliography concern reading difficulties and are arranged alphabetically by author in one of the following…

Parents and professional educators agree that reading competence is a necessary prerequisite for successful achievement in nearly all other aspects of the elementary and secondary school curriculum. Successful school achievement is also seen as necessary for later occupational and economic achievement. It is commonly believed that reading failure…

The work-study program at Soldan High School is part of St. Louis' Project Stay, an Elementary Secondary Education Act Title VIII funded dropout prevention program. The project, initiated, in the 1969-70 school year for a five year period has just completed its third year of operation. Three urban schools are involved in the project. The…

The report describes a project to identify the teaching competencies necessary for vocational teachers of Ohio's special needs students. Project activities and accomplishments are reported according to the three phases of the project. The first phase involved the identification of 112 teacher competencies, and the information in this section…

The papers included in this monograph are related to or are an outcome of a three-year demonstration project undertaken by the Jane Addams School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The project's purposes were to define a role for school social workers in school-community-pupil relations and the concomitant tasks and…

Three major themes dominated the results of a 1973 survey conducted for the Children's Television Workshop in ghetto areas of New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. First, comparison of survey data with data from studies conducted in 1970 and 1971 showed that Sesame Street had become an institution with ghetto children, its penetration and…

The meaning of program evaluation in the context of educational innovation has been expanded to embrace all aspects of a program, both formative and summative. This review seeks to identify meaningful literature on programs related to dropout prevention and the preparation of the disadvantaged for the world of work through vocational training,…

These hearings before the General Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, are concerned with three bills to further the achievement of equal educational opportunities. H.R. 13915, the Equal Educational Opportunities Act, provides Federal assistance for educationally deprived students and…