Most compensatory early childhood programs are based on an assumption of linguistic and cognitive deficits which must be remedied if the Negro child is to succeed in school, but much collected data questions this assumption. The language of many lower class Negro children has been shown to be well-ordered and highly structured, although the…

This study attempted to determine if significant and lasting cognitive gains could be achieved by focusing preschool efforts upon children younger than those now being serviced by traditional programs--children under three years of age. Thirty-six disadvantaged children, 19-28 months of age, were randomly assigned to two groups: a Home Group…

The North Carolina Advancement School treats underachievement by attempting to improve the status of the psychological factors underlying it. It is held that one of the major problems with the study of underachievement has been its isolation from average achievers. To compensate, the Achievement School has collected comparable data during 1969-70…

This volume explains the purposes and programs of the National Laboratory on Early Childhood Education. Its overriding objective is to broaden the base of knowledge concerning educational intervention and to develop comprehensive early childhood educational models. A brief discussion deals with the problems, strategies, and capacities of the…

Forty-two preschool children participated in this 2-year Head Start research project conducted at the University of Hawaii. The objectives of the overall project were (1) to focus interest on the need for early intervention with poorly-functioning preschool children with the intent to offer services of a preventive rather than remedial function;…

This volume contains the proceedings of six Head Start research seminars held in Washington, D.C., from June 11, 1968 to April 18, 1969. The subject areas for each seminar were drawn from what was considered to be the most pressing issues in early childhood education research. There were (1) motivation, (2) the teacher and classroom management,…

The program described is an attempt to create regular classroom learning experiences for teenagers which promote psychological development. Based on concepts from stage theory, the objectives of the classes are to increase the level of psychological maturity of the pupils while teaching particular psychological skills. The course is designed as a…

This review is a secondary analysis of work done by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). It concerns the subject areas of mathematics, reading comprehension, and science. The main thrust of this analysis was to look for a possible relationship between age of entry into pre-formal school education…

Reviewed in the second continuation request report for a Title III grant are 2-year activities and third year needs of the Model Early Childhood Learning Program (MECLP) involving 437 disadvantaged prekindergarten and kindergarten children in 10 classes (five schools) in Baltimore. Program goals are given to be achieved by students in reading…

The Cognitively Oriented Preschool was implemented in West Chester, Pennsylvania as a special program to meet the needs of the increasing numbers of disadvantaged children moving into the area. This report describes the program as it was implemented, including specific daily activities as well as the various kinds of curricula used. Also included…

The report describes a special 2-year early oral language intervention program designed by a Wisconsin public school system to develop life-oriented, auditory-vocal language skills in language delayed children. Explained are administrative aspects of the program including evolution of the speech and language disabilities department (1940-74), and…

Described in this report is a home-based, cognitive-affective intervention program involving 93 mothers and their children. This demonstration program sought to show that the principal cognitive element missing from the experience of low-income children in preparation for schooling is a sufficient amount of concept-building verbal interaction in…

This document is the second part of a comprehensive study designed to review child development data and program evaluation data so that proposals for Federal program planning can be made. This section (Volume 2) consists of five chapters that review project evaluation data in the five major modes of child intervention. Chapter 1 looks at…

This bibliography is a selective compilation of books and articles which focus on the psychological and social issues of applied human genetics. It is centered in particular around problems, issues, and discussions of genetic counseling, the primary mechanism by which human genetics has been applied to date. It includes those entries which, on the…

This report describes and evaluates the implementation of the Far West Laboratory's Responsive Educational Program (REP) in four communities participating in the Head Start and Follow Through "Planned Variation" experiment. The purposes of the report are: (1) to evaluate a particular implementation effort, and (2) to devise a new…