Discusses the characteristics of an educational environment which facilitates growth and development for teachers as well as children. Choice, flexibility, leadership identification, freely flowing information, and respect for one's work are necessary elements of this kind of environment. (DP)

Describes the work of the Education Commission of the States (ECS), an organization designed to bring together educational leaders who plan programs and state political leaders who make financial decisions about these programs. (DP)

Discusses the rights of the child under the law, emphasizing that there is a continuing trend of expansion of these legal and constitutional rights. (DP)

Considers the British teacher center for inservice training a potentially useful model for the professional development of American teachers. The centers focus on teacher role expansion through training in curriculum development and implementation. (DP)

Describes the role of the local advisor or advisory team in English primary schools. (DP)

Describes research on procedures implemented to increase the social play of handicapped preschool children. The use of nonhandicapped children as models increased quantity and quality of play in the target population. (DP)

This noted educator discusses how to give a child in today's society a sense of his/her own identity, emphasizing that we must modify our culture-bound, period-bound notions which tie identity to ideas of dominance and achievement in a world of limitless growth. (CS)

Discusses some ways teachers can better understand their students through interviewing on a one-to-one basis. (CS)

Some suggestions on how teachers can become better facilitators of learning in the classroom by sensitizing their listening skills and increasing their use of divergent questioning techniques. (CS)

Solidly based experimental and experiential evidence indicates that play can serve as a powerful support and energizer in the early childhood education curriculum. (CS)

Outlines the basic elements of an experimental program in educational leadership, the Cary Leadership Fellows Program of the Bank Street College of Education, and gives some of the assessments the Fellows made of their training. (CS)

Two early childhood educators report on their visit to a kindergarten in the People's Republic of China. (CS)

A first hand report of a UNESCO Conference on Early Childhood Education which met to explore scientific knowledge about the development of young children from birth to six years of age, ways of providing education better adapted to realities of every day life, and implications for lifelong education. (CS)

A comprehensive overview of significant research on intervention programs for high risk infants and young children. (CS)