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Seeley, David – 1984
Today's educational reform proposals are undermined by four dilemmas. First, the public may demand visible results before it will provide the funding needed to achieve them. Second, higher academic standards will increase failure rates, while more attainable standards will inadequately educate students. Third, the current focus on high schools may…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Cooperative Planning, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation
Dunmore, Charlotte J. – 1976
This bibliography is an attempt to pull together the literature on black children. Most of the citations are recent works. Included are citations on adoption; education; health; mental health; aspects of family life; sex, contraception, and family planning; and other areas which affect black children and their families. This volume also includes a…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Black Community, Black Culture, Black Education
World Health Organization, Copenhagen (Denmark). Regional Office for Europe. – 1977
A discussion of the health services in the schools of eight European countries is presented in this report. The care of the preschool child is also examined. The working group assigned to this task considered different methods of evaluation, including those measuring quantity and quality of services and, in addition, discussed statistical means…
Descriptors: Child Care, Data Collection, Family Involvement, Foreign Countries
Download full textLevenstein, Phyllis – 1979
This paper provides a checklist of 10 potential ethical problems associated with intervention in families through home-based programs. Problems which directly involve program participants are (1) pressure on parents to join the program, (2) violation of confidentiality, (3) intrusiveness, (4) need to respect the family's style of living, (5)…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Confidentiality, Early Childhood Education, Ethics
REED, MILDRED A. – 1968
IN SEATTLE AND IN THE NATION, GOOD DAY CARE SERVICES MUST BE MADE MORE COMPREHENSIVE. A NARRATIVE OF THE EXPERIENCES OF THE SEATTLE DAY NURSERY ASSOCIATION SUGGESTS WAYS TO INITIATE AND SUSTAIN NEEDED CHILD CARE SERVICES. THESE SERVICES SHOULD BE AVAILABLE TO FAMILIES WITH VARYING INCOMES WHO PAY FEES ON A SLIDING SCALE. EMERGENCY HELP FOR…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Community Centers, Day Care
Cleland, C.L. – 1967
The paucity of research concerning the role of family and church in rural Appalachia leads to a reliance on observations and parallels drawn from research in related areas of sociology. Highly structured family and church group relations in the Appalachian region often obstruct both the development of other inter-group relations and attempts to…
Descriptors: Church Programs, Church Responsibility, Church Role, Family Influence
Silbermann, David – 1977
This report describes the nature and extent of formal social service support provided to families with children enrolled in one of the following School District of Philadelphia early childhood programs: Child Care, Follow Through, Get Set Day Care, and Prekindergarten Head Start. This report covers the period September 1, 1976 through June 30,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Mushkin, Selma J.; Billings, Bradley B. – 1975
This guide is essentially designed as a teaching aid for those who would inform planners, officials of educational ministries, school administrators, principals, and teachers about educational outcome measurements. In outline and graphic form, the guide presents topics for discussion in a seminar dealing with feedback consequences and steps toward…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Family Involvement
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, DC. – 1970
The focus of Forum 3 was to recommend action-oriented programs to help the school-age child find and use already-existing community resources to help him develop a positive identity. Specifically, the following components are recommended: (1) The Cultural Voucher system, in which children ages 3 to 16 would be able to purchase enriching goods and…
Descriptors: Art Teachers, Childhood Needs, Community Action, Community Resources
Williams, W. Vail; And Others – 1970
This paper describes an ongoing research project which is designed to test the effectiveness of crisis-oriented social systems intervention as a model for primary prevention with bereaved families. The families' immediate reactions to the death and their subsequent reorganization are discussed in light of two factors: (1) the interaction pattern…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Death, Family Attitudes, Family Involvement
Extension Service (USDA), Washington, DC. – 1973
The extension staff handbook of ideas for young families consists of five sections: Young Family Profile, Identifying Young Families, Involving Young Families, Educational Approaches, and Keys to Successful Young Family Programs. The young family of the seventies goes beyond the traditional definition of family and reflects varied life styles,…
Descriptors: Committees, Extension Education, Family Characteristics, Family Involvement
Children's Bureau (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1966
The proceedings of the National Conference on Day Care Services are reported. Addresses before general sessions were: (1)"The Nation Looks at Day Care Services" by Hubert H. Humphrey; (2) "Spotlight on Day Care" by Ellen Winston; (3) "Education and Welfare: Allies Against Poverty" by Francis Keppel; (4) "Twenty Percent of the Nation" by Julius B.…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Conference Reports, Day Care, Day Care Centers
Fleischman, Paul – Horn Book Magazine, 1987
Recounts the childhood experiences of the son of a children's author. Describes the father's writing habits, his use of imagery in his books, and his custom of reading his new stories aloud to his children. (NKA)
Descriptors: Authors, Childrens Literature, Creative Writing, Early Experience
Peer reviewedDePompei, Roberta; And Others – Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 1988
An active role is recommended for family members involved in rehabilitation of cognitive communicative impairments of head-injured individuals. The paper discusses family systems theory, dysfunctional family reactions to the cognitive communicative behaviors of the head-injured member, and methods of assisting the family to develop the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Restructuring, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills
Peer reviewedBribitzer, Marjorie P.; Verdieck, Mary Jeanne – Child Welfare, 1988
Evaluates the Family Program, a family-centered program in northern Virginia which provides intensive in-home support and treatment to families with children in the custody of county child welfare departments. The sample comprises 42 closed cases. Results show that families that are at risk benefit significantly from extensive support systems.…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Children, Family Characteristics
