This report describes the Ypsilanti Preschool Curriculum Demonstration Project, a 5-year program conducted to assess the efficacy of preschool intervention for culturally disadvantaged children diagnosed as functionally retarded. Five groups of 3- and 4-year-olds participated in the program or served as controls. The project served as a source of…

Materials and methods of instruction, adequacy of facilities, teacher quality, and motivation are influential factors in the quality of learning. Language and verbal ability are functions determining achievement in all subject areas. A reading and social science curriculum was designed from this perspective, using a previously-developed listening…

This paper on intervention research critically reviews evaluations of experimental procedures designed to effect changes in the language development of disadvantaged children. It includes a summary of intervention projects and survey of present knowledge and theory about language which constitute the rationale for such projects. Specific…

This monograph considers the effects of the family on the intellectual and personal development of the child, and the effects of culture upon the family's way of life, and thus, on the child. In a survey of early compensatory education projects, university based programs, and school and community programs are described. Program organizational…

One competency to be demonstrated by future teachers in the OCE ComField program is defined in terms of their ability to bring about a wide range of cognitive responses on the part of pupils, indicating that the pupil is using a variety of mental operations, which include divergent thinking memory, evaluative thinking, and identifying common…

The purpose of the study was to describe ways in which disadvantaged children differ from their more advantaged peers in the areas of cognitive and affective developmental patterns, and to use this description to restructure curricular experiences for disadvantaged children. Five groups of approximately 30 preschool children each were tested three…

The objectives of this program, funded under Title I of the 1965 ESEA, were as follows: (1) to raise the achievement levels in reading for children in the special schools who were retarded in reading two or more years. Each of the 28 special schools selected a target group of children for whom intensive remediation was provided; (2) to develop…

The collected seminar papers on childhood education included in this publication have three main objectives: (1) To acquaint participants from four Utah universities with research trends, with emerging principles and practices in child development, (2) to confront participants with different points of view and to provide opportunities to clarify…

This final report of an ESEA Title III program compared the impact of a 3-year interracial preschool program on cognitive and social development on two treatment groups and a control group. Group 1 had parents and children participating in a preschool classroom, and the parents also participated in parent education programs. Group 2 had a separate…

This annotated film bibliography is a compilation of film listings suitable for early childhood education teacher training, parent education, and for viewing by children. The list has been gathered from a variety of sources including the National Association for the Education of Young Children's conference film showings for the past several years,…

This report focuses on three main questions: (1) To what extent does a Head Start experience accelerate the rate at which disadvantaged preschoolers acquire cognitive skills? (2) Are the Planned Variation models, simply by virtue of sponsorship more effective than ordinary nonsponsored Head Start programs? and (3) Are some Planned Variation models…

This report explores the possibility of constructing a conceptual framework to account for variations in learning styles observed among preschool disadvantaged children. It begins with a review of the literature on preschool intervention programs relating to ways disadvantaged children approach new experiences; gather, organize, and process…

The report summarizes research on the development of an objective scoring system and the formulation of scales useful in the assessment of psychological development and normal behavior using a five-card, orally administered and tape-recorded version of the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT). The TAT language scales which were developed represent…

The Impact of a Preschool Interracial Program (IPSIP) project, funded under Title III of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, was designed to test the hypothesis that intervening with sufficient impact in the early lives of environmentally deprived children will produce a significant, lasting effect on their cognitive and social…

The nutritional status of Kindergarten children has been studied in relation to performance in behavioral tests and the effects of several types of nutritional intervention in nutrition and behavior have been evaluated. In a study in 1969-70, children who received breakfast and lunch at school showed significant improvement in hemoglobin…