Recession Endangers Childhood Education Program

Parents as Teachers instructor Nicole Wong, left, plays a game with Meridyth Clark, 2, center, and her sister Olivia Clark, 4, right, at the Clark's home on the Ft. Leonard Wood Army Base in FT. Leonard Wood, Mo., on Feb. 16, as Ashley Clark looks on.
—Stephanie S. Cordle/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/AP
By The Associated Press
Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.

In the living room of a tract home deep inside a sprawling military base, visitor Nicole Wong opens her arsenal of teaching tricks: a plastic craft box filled with homemade puzzles, magic markers and shaving cream.

Meridyth Clark, 2, and her sister Olivia, 4, are immediately hooked.

"What does that feel like?" Wong asks as she squirts the shaving cream onto a tray and lets...

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