Case studies of individual Parent-Child Centers are part of baseline data collected for the impact study of the Parent-Child Center (PCC) program. Seven centers, selected as representative of the national program, are examined. Case studies include descriptions of facilities, the ethnic characteristics of participants, the communities in which…

This report is an evaluation of the Living Room School Project, in Nassau County, New York, which stresses the use of home settings for a preschool program that involves children and parents. The project's major objective was to help parents meet their child's needs as parents learn to recognize themselves and their home as educational resources.…

According to this paper, the education profession can best serve the child and his family by training and encouraging parents to be better able to care for and educate their children. This objective would require emphasis upon developing communication, cooperation, and collaboration with parents to support the child's extra-academic education. It…

The Houston Parent-Child Development Center was established to provide a basis for educational improvement for Mexican-American families and to yield basic information about the importance of the whole family for a child's success in learning. Certain cultural factors, such as language and sex role expectations were taken into account in…

The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the Canadian Mothercraft Society completed the first year of their 3-year day care demonstration project for advantaged and disadvantaged infants from 3 to 30 months of age. The program was designed to facilitate infants' cognitive, personality, and social development through personalized…

In the summer of 1969, the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory undertook the implementation of a Mobile Migrant Project to serve a designated group of preschool migrant children. The project was to consist of (1) a summer program in 1969 in at least 2 "in trek" locations, (2) integration in the 1969-70 school year with the…

Methods for teaching parents techniques for stimulating audition and language development in their deaf infants were explored over a 3-year period. Families were seen individually at the University of Kansas Medical Center by teachers of the deaf. Techniques were demonstrated for the correlating of hearing and language development with home…

Evaluated was a program designed to improve the perceptual, motor/sensory skills of 1,002 handicapped children (5-21 years old) in New York City schools. Program components included motor education training for students, inservice training of classroom teachers and periodic teacher workshops, and parent education through workshops and specially…

Disadvantages in schooling associated with poorly educated or low status fathers and with large families continue to persist. (Author/DE)

Following a brief history of the church's role in Swedish education, the author explains the expanded Swedish definition of moral education, which includes the socialization process as a whole. Current objectives, research projects, curriculum developments, and church activities are discussed, as are parent and teacher education programs. (SJL)

Since the parenting education needs of teenage parents are multifaceted, parenting education must also be multifaceted and begin as early as possible during the pregnancy. (MM)

Parent support teams can provide help to parents during the crucial early years of children's language development. (MKM)

The Downing Program for Parent Training in Family Relationship and Management Skills was introduced to the parents of students attending an alternative education school at the secondary level. Students with parents completing the Downing Program were significantly or markedly different from students whose parents did not participate. (Author)

This paper describes a Family Education Center in a prison setting. A children's activity center in the prison visiting area serves as a focus for adult education (emphasizing the concerns of families) and provides a child care service. (BD)