1. From the editor...

   • Randa Roen Nachbar

   EditorialNotes Pages: 4 - 4

2. How and why to plan salary schedules

   • Gerri Ginsburg
   • Marcy Whitebook
   • Child Care Employee Project

   Features Pages: 6 - 9

3. Beware comparing salaries

   • Denise Nitterhouse

   Features Pages: 10 - 12

4. Help for preschoolers

   • Constance Carpenter Gagnon

   Features Pages: 13 - 15

5. Weaving curriculum webs: Planning, guiding, and recording curriculum activities in the day care classroom

   • Diane E. Levin

   Features Pages: 16 - 19

6. Separation — Between 9 and 5

   • Amy Laura Dombro

   Features Pages: 20 - 21

7. Emerging issues in early childhood education, part 2

   • Alice Sterling Honig

   Features Pages: 22 - 27

8. What will happen if ... Young children and the scientific method

   • Barbara Sprung
   • Merle Froschl
   • Educational Equity Concepts, Inc.

   Features Pages: 28 - 35

9. Transition time: Make it a time of learning for children

   • Betty Ruth Baker

   Features Pages: 36 - 38

10. Pigs

    • Madalynne Schoenfeld

    Column Pages: 40 - 40

11. Bibliography

    Legacy Pages: 41 - 41

12. Developing self-esteem

    • Harriet Hartman

    Column Pages: 42 - 43

13. Science and nature projects

    • Carolyn Buhai Haas

    Column Pages: 44 - 46