Attempts to identify and evaluate reading material currently available to introduce young children to the topics of alcohol and alcoholism. (BB)

Reviews the literature on some of the major ways that parents and teachers influence the development of prosocial tendencies in children; they include child-rearing practices, social cognition, mood, modeling, and training. Also provides suggestions for parents and teachers to help children behave prosocially. (Author/BB)

Position paper argues in favor of developmentally appropriate kindergarten programs. Paper examines program goals and content, and provides suggestions about learning environment, curriculum, and staff. Includes statements concerning purpose of kindergarten, importance of play in learning, and need for program support. (PCB)

Examines recent criticisms of teacher preparation and considers changes in teacher education over the past 10 years. Provides suggestions concerning future directions for teacher education programs. (PCB)

Argues in favor of history instruction for children to promote citizenship education, the construction of social world, and temporal understanding. (PCB)

Examines the impact of the Junior Great Books Program of interpretive reading and discussion on fourth-grade children's cognitive processes and feelings of self worth. (PCB)

Looks at ways to improve students' writing through use of classroom writing programs that emphasize revisions or rewriting. Identifies types of revisions to be made and suggests ways to help students focus on their purpose, including self-selection of topics, publishing and conferencing. (PCB)

Examines six major preconditions for literacy that are rooted in the home environment and discusses some of the implications of this home literacy environment for schools. (Author/PCB)

Provides answers to questions commonly asked by parents concerning beginning reading instruction. Emphasizes the development of oral language competence, and reading and writing for meaning, rather than formal instruction, and drill in reading skills. (PCB)

Describes the Minnesota Early Childhood Family Education Program, which is designed to offer support and information for all parents and their children from birth to kindergarten-enrollment age, and to provide a good early childhood education experience for young children. (Author/PCB)

Illustrates how one mother and her 10-year-old son worked out a latchkey arrangement for after school. (PCB)

Maintains that teachers play an important role in building a child's self-respect, and that with self-respect, children are empowered. (Author/PCB)

Reviews studies concerning the development and influence of children's food preferences and discusses implications of the findings for parents and educators. (Author)

Maintains that priorities generated by forces which affect children--technology, society, home and family, school, economic resources--need to be assessed. Assessment should focus on how priorities for children are established; the intensity of priorities; how priorities might be appropriately applied; and how priorities can be effectively…

Presents one teacher's perspectives on the priorities that are important for children in an educational environment. (BB)