Suggests that kindergarten teachers should once a week bring to class a news photograph which they can discuss with the children. Such an exercise can be used to create among the children a wider awareness of the world and to counter their tendency to focus exclusively on the self. (Author/RH)

Answers five questions related to the advisability of mainstreaming handicapped preschoolers. It is concluded that a strong rationale exists for integrating handicapped preschool children into regular programs and that research findings indicate that integration is beneficial to both handicapped and nonhandicapped. (Author/RH)

Cites a few of the outstanding changes in California's school operation, as well as the benefits accrued from these changes, to support the contention that public school systems are improving and that the future of public education has never been brighter. (Author/MP)

Argues that, despite the plethora of federal, state, and local policies that now affect children, there is not (and never has been) a conscious national policy toward them except one: that all children should attend school until a state-mandated age. Offers, from the perspective of private education, nine recommendations for creating an…

Presents a selected, chronological retrospective highlighting both the Reagan Administration's proposal to dismantle the Department of Education and some opposing viewpoints. (Author/MP)

Argues that in the past, the major initiative for child and family legislation originated within professions involved in serving their needs. Given the present circumstances, however, the time has come for parents to become direct resources for legislators regarding the needs of children and families. Suggestions to help parents become effective…

The Child and Family Justice Project, designed to help communities improve the quality of life for their children and families, is described in terms of its development, evaluation, and its long range effects. (Author/MP)

Critizes the public child care policy with regard to adoption services through the story of "Joey", a black child in his teens. Shortly after his birth, Joey was sent by his teenage mother to a city agency for adoption and until now no real effort has been made to place him in a permanent home. (Author/MP)

Summarizes issues affecting Black children and child care in Africa as addressed in the 11th Annual Conference of the National Black Child Development Institute. (Author/MP)

A comparison of public family policy, either as legislation or as a pervasive attitude, is offered with the intention of providing an international perspective to an issue that is becoming more significant and explosive in the United States. (Author/MP)

Criticizes the use of corporal punishment in schools and argues that the schools should instead encourage the most advanced and effective methods of child management. (Author/MP)

Argues against the current popular educational practice of mainstreaming which is based on the child's chronological age, and suggests a system called Developmental Placement in which, through the use of standardized tests, the developmental level of every school beginner is evaluated and used as a basis for grouping. (Author/MP)

Differential instruction approaches appropriate for teaching students with differing ethnic and racial backgrounds are a key to developing effective approaches to multicultural education. Important and frequently discussed approaches include student learning styles, dialect differences among ethnic and racial groups, and bilingual education.…

Reviews research on infant stimulation and cognitive development, and details implications for infant caregivers. (Author/MP)

Cites research that suggests the workplace and the community will be vital areas of influence in people's lives for the rest of the century, stressing the importance of a totally supportive environment and describing the role of business in supporting families and schools. (MP)