This is the third in a series of six annotated bibliographies. It has as its general subject the educational aspects of early childhood and includes three subdivisions: child-rearing practices, school performance, and effects of nursery school and day care. Each of the 11 abstracts included has been classified by general and specific subject, by focus of study, and alphabetically by author. Focus of study categories are normative, environmental, measurement and techniques, intervention, pathology, physiology, animals, and general. The general subjects of other bibliographies in the series are physical, language, cognition, personality, and social aspects of early childhood education. (MS)