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Show Target: Elementary Education Sudy Joggds 7 Colleq. Seven colleges and universities now engaged in research in early childhood learning will combine their resources in a new coordinated effort to improve im-prove the education of the young, according to information released by the U.S. Office of Education. The new program will be known as the National Laboratory Labora-tory in Early Childhood Education. Edu-cation. Among projects underway under-way or planned are: Analysis of the educational assets and deficits of Mexican-American Mexican-American children. Training Programs Development of special training train-ing programs to enable mothers of deprived children to assist in the education of their offspring. Studies of two and three-year olds focused on language skills, concept formation, and physical coordination. Development of curriculum for preschool and early primary I school programs for disadvantaged disadvan-taged Negro children. Analysis of home environments environ-ments and their effects on learning learn-ing in children from middle and lower economic groups. Social Segregation Examination of the extent to which social segregation exists ex-ists in nominally integrated classrooms (of four-year-olds) and development of procedures aimed at eliminating the condition. con-dition. Research and development activities ac-tivities of the laboratory will operate under a national coordination coordi-nation center at the University of Illinois. The other participating partici-pating institutions are George Peabody College and Chicago, Syracuse, Arizona, New York, and Cornell Universities. Although 20 regional educational educa-tional laboratories have been established, the Early Childhood i |