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Download full textHolmes, Monica; And Others – 1973
This report presents results of cognitive ability tests administered to 3 to 5-year olds who were graduating from Parent-Child Center (PCC) programs in 14 cities. PCC programs are designed to maximize the potentialities of low income preschoolers through in-center, home-based, or in-center/home-based combination programs. The findings reflected…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Tests, Comparative Analysis
Healy, Margaret I. – 1974
This summary report examines the findings of a home-based early childhood education enrichment program designed to make it possible for educationally disadvantaged children to cope effectively with the demands of American schools and society. Background information on the development and implementation of the program and a discussion of the…
Descriptors: Achievement, Child Development, Data Analysis, Early Childhood Education
Mothers as Early Cognitive Trainers: Guiding Low-Income Mothers to Work with Their Pre-Preschoolers.
Levenstein, Phyllis – 1971
The Mother-Child Home Program was planned as a home-based, two-year cognitive intervention method. Women with varied incomes and education, both volunteer and paid, made 30-minute home visits twice weekly to help mothers become cognitive trainers of their own toddlers (starting at age two). Mother-child verbal interaction was stimulated with gifts…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Home Programs, Home Visits
WEIKART, DAVID P., ED. – 1967
THE PERRY PRESCHOOL PROJECT IS AN EXPERIMENT WITH REPLICATIONS DESIGNED TO ASSESS THE LONGITUDINAL EFFECTS OF A 2-YEAR, COGNITIVELY ORIENTED, COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROGRAM. SELECTED FROM A POPULATION WHICH IS NEGRO, FUNCTIONALLY RETARDED, AND CULTURALLY DEPRIVED, CONTROL AND EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS ARE EQUATED FOR MEAN CULTURAL-DEPRIVATION RATING AND…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Black Youth, Cognitive Development
Alaska State Dept. of Education, Juneau. – 1994
This brochure provides educators, statisticians, the press, the public, and other interested parties with selected facts and figures about education in Alaska. Brief tables give: (1) general district and school information for Alaska's 54 public school districts and its private schools; (2) student information, including enrollment and graduates…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Boarding Schools, College Entrance Examinations
