This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on life style characteristics of economically depressed areas is the second in a set of four core modules on teaching home economics in economically depressed areas. (This set is part of a larger set of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and…

This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on government housing programs is the second in a set of three modules on housing in economically depressed areas. (This set is part of a larger set of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education [MATCHE]--see CE 019 901-967.)…

This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on low income furnishings is the third in a set of three modules on housing in economically depressed areas. (This set is part of a larger set of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education [MATCHE]--see CE 019 901-967.)…

This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on meal management on a low income is the third in a set of three modules on foods and nutrition in economically depressed areas. (This set is part of a larger set of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education [MATCHE]--see CE…

The importance of parental attention in the facilitation of prereading skill development is examined in this paper. The first section presents a historical perspective on attitudes toward early childhood education, touching on the views of educators of past centuries and on recent trends in early childhood education in the United States. The…

This study of a parent education program associated with a medical facility investigated two questions: (1) Was the medical facility a valid site for recruiting and training parents for an educational intervention program to be carried out at home? (2) Would a short term intervention program have an impact on the performance of preschool children…

This collection of 7 bilingual papers on children with special needs is part of a series of papers on various aspects of day care published by the Canadian Department of Health and Welfare. Each paper is presented in both English and French. Paper I is a 2-page description of the nutrition program in a kindergarten for the trainable mentally…

The thesis of this paper is that all children, excepting those of certifiable handicap, are educable, and the behavior of the school is critical in determining the quality of that education. Concentrating on several innercity schools in Detroit, this paper discusses the distinguishing characteristics of schools that are instructionally effective…

Using a synthesis of available literature written between 1960 and 1977, the study reported in this document focuses on the assessment of (1) employment and training services for youth; (2) techniques which have been used in providing employment and training services to youth; (3) administrative practices which have either enhanced or vitiated…

The Prekindergarten Head Start (PKHS) program employed five different instructional models: Bank Street (BS), Behavior Analysis (BA), Montessori (M), Open Classroom (OC), and Responsive Learning (RL). All program components: education, social service, health and nutrition, staff development, and parent involvement performed as expected. Data from…

This directory identifies key agencies and organizations that provide guidance and assistance to anyone who works with the special needs learner. The offices and establishments described in the directory represent the numerous organizations and agencies responsive to the academic and vocational requirements of the following special needs…

Although in recent years federal, state and local initiatives have been directed toward improving the education of Hispanic children, no significant impacts have as yet been made. The major weakness may be that strategies are still being designed against the characteristics of the larger society and not against the particular minority group.…

The document investigates how socioeconomic status (SES) impinges upon student achievement. Research was conducted to test the association between (1) SES and the time parents spend with children; (2) SES and types of parent child interactions; and (3) (in order to control SES) the influence of amount of time and type of interaction upon student…

Lifelong learning should be viewed only as a master concept for education--the principle on which overall organization of the system is founded--to improve the individual's quality of life. A literature search found confusing definitions of lifelong learning, global implications of the concept, and little information about what the public needs…

In 1977-78, four remediation programs were funded under Title I and three under Impact Aid in New York City's School District 30. Title I programs included: (1) a teacher-paraprofessional reading team program in 12 elementary, intermediate and junior high schools; (2) a teacher-paraprofessional mathematics team program in 10 elementary,…