In the particular intervention program described, children under 3 years of age are given a nursery school type of experience five days a week for eight or more hours a day, with program emphasis on stimulating retarded development. Mothers are given inservice training averaging 3 hours per week, stressing development of mothers' self-concept,…

Some of the general objectives of this compensator y program were to provide educational experiences and to assess the needs of the children and their parents. During the 1967-1968 school year it comprised 23 classes situated in 14 schools and was designed to serve up to 405 pupils and 345 parents. The classes were financed by California State and…

In 1967, the California Congress of Parents and Teachers (PTA) and the Bureau of Adult Education of the State Department of Education conducted a ten day parent education workshop designed to help the participants understand how group dynamics functions to develop individuals to act as leaders in home and community. Lecturers addressed themselves…

An intervention program was designed to study offsetting progressive school retardation of deprived children and the impact of the program on the community. This third report presents findings at the end of the fourth grade, 3 years after the experiment ceased. Subjects were 88 children, all Negro, and 27 of these served as a distal control group.…

This paper presents a discussion of the gradual changes in society's sex role attitudes and the implications for children and early childhood education. The author states that the move toward equalizing the women's role in society was precipitated by the employment of women during World War II, and this movement is supported today by the following…

This guide gives parents answers to seven questions: (1) What are the social studies? (2) How are the social studies taught? (3) Why do social studies educators say that knowing information is not enough? (4) Why are there so many social studies courses? (5) What is happening to the language of the social studies? (6) What issues are discussed in…

The programs in District 15 funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act offered a wide variety of educational programs targeted for the educationally deprived child. The major common thread running through all Title I Programs was the emphasis upon improvement of basic academic skills. Primary focus of all programs was…

The case studies in this report describe the Advocacy Components (AC) of seven Parent-Child Centers, giving comprehensive details based on six months of operation. Each site description includes information related to: the community, needs assessment, the relationships with families, family group participation, community resources, project…

This home visitor's handbook is one of seven publications designed to implement the Home-Oriented Preschool Education (HOPE) Program, which uses televised, mobile classroom, and parent instruction to educated 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds. It describes the HOPE program, and the home visitor's role, and provides guidelines for work with preschoolers and…

The teacher parent guide to systematic instruction for retarded chidlren in the Illinois program explains program content, curriculum decisions, lesson plan descriptions, and behavioral analysis and management. The Illinois educational method is characterized by: total push program with coordinated instructional effort, specific curricular…

To increase the educability of preschool children from low income homes, the Demonstration and Research Center for Early Education (DARCEE) devised a home visiting program to teach the mother to be an effective teacher of her child at home. The DARCEE guide is intended as one resource to help provide information for persons in training to be home…

This document provides brief descriptions of the 20 individual programs now in effect for Follow Through research and development. Follow Through is attempting to assess the effectiveness of a variety of innovative approaches to working with young children and their families in a number of cultural and environmental settings. These approaches…

The Florida Parent Education Follow Through Model emphasizes: (1) the training of mothers (two to each classroom) in the role of combined parent educator and teacher auxiliary; (2) training the teacher in the use of paraprofessional personnel; and (3) development of materials for family use which take into account not only the school's goals for…

The purpose of this study was to develop a data base concerning the home background of Puerto Rican pupils as it relates to present and potential educational progress. Specifically, the study was designed to secure and summarize systematic data concerning the following factors: (1) the educational level of the parents and their educational…

The Parent/Child Toy-Library Program is described and a report is given of its evaluation. The program is a 10-week course for parents of three- and four year-old children, an educational Toy Library for the parents, and a training program for the teacher-librarians who will teach the course and operate the library. Two toys were rejected on the…