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A modified Montessori nursery school program operating in a private urban school serving a racially heterogeneous population was evaluated. The project called for investigating the educational effects of the program on both Head Start and middle class children. The impression was that children participated in the project differentially. That is, they had unique patterns of work and play when they were given a choice of different activities. The evaluation procedures spanned the entire school year. Tests were administered to a total sample of 58 children, divided equally by social class during the first and last month of the school year. The classroom observations were recorded for a subset of this group, which contained 43 children. This sample of 43 children was also equally divided by social class. Each Head Start child was pair-matched to the extent possible on age, sex, classroom, and previous school experience with a middle class child. Twenty six of these children were above four years of age and received the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence and the Stanford-Binet, L. M., the remaining children received the Merrill Palmer Scale of Mental Tests and the Stanford-Binet. Classroom observations were conducted during the period between testings. Findings are discussed in terms of the observational data, the test data, and the relationship between the two. (RC)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert