This Title I summer program was designed to develop the prereading skills of 200 educationally deprived preschool pupils in Atlanta. Specifically, the goals of the program were to: (1) develop social behavior motor skills, positive self-concept, perceptual skills, and cognitive skills in these four-year-old pupils; (2) provide inservice training…

This study compared the performance of kindergarten children who had participated in a full-year Head Start program (FYHS) with that of children who had attended summer Head Start (SHS). FYHS subjects at each of two elementary schools were selected at random from eligible applicants. SHS comparison groups were made up primarily of children from…