Reports a study in which the statural growth of more than 10,000 lower-income black and white children was compared by age and sex. (Author/SF)

Discusses the success of project HOPE (Health and Optimum Physical Education) in Irwin County, Georgia. (GB)

This position paper of the American School Counselor Association Governing Board discusses the role of counselors in meeting the special needs of elementary school students . (RWP)

Sessions of verbal interaction (N=22) significantly facilitated syntax acquisition by 32- to 40-month-olds. In response to children's sentences, experimenters replied with recast sentences that maintained the same meaning but provided new syntactic information. A selective bias in these replies was matched by selectively stronger facilitation in…

Considers the government's use of the schools in North Korea and its instructional programs as a means of political indoctrination that aims at shaping and remolding North Korean youth into communists. (Author/RK)

Teachers need to have both confidence and time to adapt to new situations. If change is imposed and rushed, it will have little viability. (Editor)

This paper presents a framework which could be used by researchers to obtain descriptive and experimental data about the child-rearing practices of parents of disabled children. In addition, the authors suggest specific areas of research which might prove useful in assisting school psychologists to develop programs of counseling for the parents of…

Discusses the meaning of accountability and its implications for the child, who becomes involved in educational programs that are designed as a result of that evaluation process. (RK)

Author offers a series of arguments for extending publicly-supported day care and makes explicit the position on which performance competencies for a new educational role--the Child Development Associate--is based. (Author/CB)

The data from this study indicate that the national policy of exploiting the young child's capacity to learn exerted a powerful influence on state educational policy. (Author)

Article investigated the way to christianize the child and how parents can be instrumental. (RK)

Four-and seven-year-old children observed an adult, filmed model perform novel behaviors following social interaction with that adult. Other children viewed the film without social interaction. Children were then asked to demonstrate behavior. Seven-year-olds did better than four-year-olds, and a positive social interaction facilitated modeling.…