1. From the editor...

   • Randa Roen Nachbar

   EditorialNotes Pages: 2 - 2

2. Work commitment and job satisfaction for program staff: How to build it

   • Nora Palmer Gould

   Features Pages: 4 - 7

3. Day care is more than a nursery school!

   • Margaret A. King

   Features Pages: 8 - 11

4. Math activities for young children

   • Diane M. Kohl

   Features Pages: 12 - 15

5. Roll out the computer, then the presses!

   • Lillian Krause

   Features Pages: 16 - 17

6. Home visits: A child-centered approach to an old concept

   • Tamar Meyer

   Features Pages: 18 - 21

7. Teaching children while they play: Cultivating emergent writing and reading

   • Carol Taylor Schrader

   Features Pages: 22 - 25

8. Staff development ideas

   • Jerry Aldridge

   Columns Pages: 26 - 26

9. Living in space: A preschool aerospace curriculum

   • Young Astronaut Council

   Features Pages: 27 - 33

10. Getting families involved

    • Patsy Allen

    Columns Pages: 34 - 35

11. Mommy doesn't do it like that

    • Neal Hawes

    Columns Pages: 36 - 37

12. Child's play! (who am I?)

    • Martha Ann C. Caffrey

    Columns Pages: 38 - 38

13. The good preschool teacher

    • Randa Roen Nachbar

    Columns Pages: 39 - 40

14. The adventures of a day care provider

    • B. J. Richards

    Columns Pages: 41 - 41

15. Evaluating programs

    • Rena Shimoni
    • Denise MacLean
    • Cathy MacWilliam

    Columns Pages: 42 - 46

16. Ear infections

    • Richard J. Sagall

    Columns Pages: 47 - 47