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A Review of Research on Intervention with Preschool Children and Families.

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Quay, Lorene C. – 1993

This research review focuses on the effects of early intervention on the preschool children of low-income families, examining studies of intervention programs begun in the 1960s through the present. It then relates this analysis to the new Georgia Prekindergarten Program. The interventions reviewed are grouped into four hierarchical categories…

Descriptors: Cultural Context, Disadvantaged Environment, Environmental Influences, Family Programs

Head Start: A Child Development Program.

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Administration for Children, Youth, and Families (DHHS), Washington, DC. Head Start Bureau. – 1993

This booklet discusses the origins and components of Head Start, a federal project launched in 1965 to help break the cycle of poverty by providing preschool children of low-income families with a comprehensive program to meet their emotional, social, health, nutritional, and psychological needs. The description of the program notes that in fiscal…

Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Health, Community Role, Family Programs

Making the Most of Out-of-School Time. Executive Summary: Interim Findings from an Evaluation Conducted by Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago.

Halpern, Robert; Spielberger, Julie; Robb, Sylvan; Stevens, Rachel – 1998

The University of Chicago's Chapin Hall Center for Children evaluated the progress of the Making the Most of Out-of-School Time (MOST) Initiative in Boston, Chicago, and Seattle. MOST's goals are to improve the supply, accessibility, affordability and quality of school-age care, especially for low-income children; and to strengthen the overall…

Descriptors: After School Programs, Child Welfare, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Education