Discusses the Home Start program, the new three-year Head Start demonstration program designed to bring comprehensive child development services to children and families in their own homes by helping parents provide many of the same services Head Start offers children in centers. (Author/JM)

An interview with Dr. Edward Zigler, who is director of the Child Study Center of Yale and former director of the U.S. Office of Child Development. (Author/JM)

Evaluates a program offered by the Los Angeles Student-Development Center as part of an intensive study skills curriculum for collegiate low achievers who had decided to continue their education, which focused on specific variables related to test anxiety. (JM)

Discusses the problems and progress of Open Admissions at City University of New York. (DM)

Relates two strategies of compensatory education to the origins of educational deficits. (JM)

Surveys the rapid acceleration of innovation in recent years. (MB)

Speech presented at the 27th Biennial Kappa Delta Pi Convention. (EJS)

Programs in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Greeley, Colorado, are described. (RD)

Reviews evidence which shows that school desegregation and compensatory programs have paid off in higher academic achievement among minority children. (GC)

This paper shows how several of Cook and Gruder's meta-evaluation models have been applied in the national evaluation of Project Follow Through. Participants in the evaluation are identified, their roles are described, and the degree to which these roles map onto the meta-evaluation models is assessed. (Author/BW)

Claims that schools in the Southwest have created a culturally-biased atmosphere damaging to children of Hispanic descent. Recommends the establishment of Hispanically-oriented schools to introduce barrio children to Anglo culture gradually, without threatening their cultural identity. (SK)