African American and Puerto Rican American parenting styles, paternal involvement, and Head Start children's social competence
A comparison of African-American and Puerto Rican-American parenting styles and paternal involvement, and an examination of the relationship of mother’s and father’s parenting styles and child care involvement on Head Start participating children’s social competence
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Aggressors, victims, and defenders in preschool: Peer, self-, and teacher reports
An interview-based analysis of the differences in perceptions of aggressor, victim, and defender roles among young British children and their teachers and peers in school settings
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Behavioral inhibition as a precursor of peer social competence in early school age: The interplay with attachment and nonparental care
A comparison of statistical models examining links between behavioral inhibition, attachment security, and experiences of nonparental care in the development of social competence, in a sample of 90 school age children in Uppsala, Sweden
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Boys, girls, and "two cultures" of child care
A comparison of child care quality differences by gender, and an exploration of the contributions of gender composition of the child care setting, child behavior, and structural, global, and care giving quality to those overall differences, based on data from a subset of 66 toddlers, between the ages of 24 and 35 months, from the Temperament Over Time Study (TOTS)
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Child care in the first year of life
An analysis of the hours, type, and stability of child care used in infants' first year of life based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care
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Children's experiences in center-based child care as a function of teacher background and adult:child ratio
An examination of child care quality in relation to adult: child ratio and teacher education, using the Cost, Quality and Outcome (CQO) and Florida Quality Improvement study datasets
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Children's experiences in family child care and relative care as a function of family income and ethnicity
A study of the role of family variables like ethnicity and income in the choice between family or relative child care arrangements, and the relationship between family variables and child care provider behavior and quality
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Cumulative risk and continuity in nonparental care from infancy to early adolescence
An examination of the impact of nonparental care experiences on children's adjustment and well-being
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Differential contributions of three parenting dimensions to preschool literacy and social skills in a middle-income sample
An investigation of the relationships among home learning environment and affective dimensions of parenting practices and both the social and demographic backgrounds of families of preschoolers, and an examination of the relationship of these practices to children's literacy and learning related social skills, based on data from 229 families of preschoolers in a middle-income community enrolled a larger Pathways to Literacy study
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Early child care: The known and the unknown
A review of previous child care research looking at the relations between child care quality, arrangements, and outcomes in terms of children's development
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Early learning and school readiness: Can early intervention make a difference?
A longitudinal study investigating whether exposing low income, at risk children to high quality early childhood education can encourage cognitive development, school readiness, and long term academic achievement
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Effects of home and school computer use on school readiness and cognitive development among Head Start children: A randomized controlled pilot trial
An investigation of the impact of computer use on Head Start children's school readiness, examining if computers enhance children's educational experiences and if they benefit more from using a computer in both home and school settings as compared with using it only at school
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Fathers and ''others'' as infant-care providers: Predictors of parents' emotional well-being and marital satisfaction
A study on the influence of infant care arrangements on parental emotional and marital well-being
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Introduction: Child care as a developmental context
An introduction and overview of research on child development in child care settings
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Negative interactions and social competence for preschool children in two samples: Reconsidering the interpretation of aggressive behavior for young children
A comparison of the negative social interactions of Head Start and non-Head Start preschool children to determine whether a relationship exists between aggression and poor social competence
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Order in the house! Associations among household chaos, the home literacy environment, maternal reading ability, and children’s early reading
An examination of associations between household chaos, the home literacy environment, and early reading skills, based on data collected from a population of 455 twins enrolled in the Western Reserve Reading Project
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Patterns of after-school care in middle childhood: Risk factors and developmental outcomes
A study of the relationship between students’ participation in differing types of after-school care in the first, third, and fifth grades and the prediction of behavioral adjustment and academic performance in the sixth grade through examination of school records, interviews with 466 mothers, and teachers’ ratings for study participants in kindergarten and sixth-grade classes
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Relations between preschool children's child-care experiences and concurrent development: The Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study
A longitudinal study of the effects of child care experiences on concurrent child outcomes, taking into account the quality of child care and the moderating influence of family and child characteristics.
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Scaffolding interactions with preschool children: Comparisons between Chinese mothers and teachers across different tasks
A study of mother-child and teacher-child dyads' scaffolding interactions during two problem solving tasks, a comparison of Chinese mothers' to teachers' adjustment to the child in response to those interactions, and an examination of the influence of both socioeconomic and task characteristics on those interactions, based on data from 57 5-year-old children, their mothers, and teachers in 7 kindergartens in Beijing
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School adjustment of children at risk through fourth grade
An article presenting a model of the factors influencing the school adjustment process.
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Social and relational factors in early education and prosocial actions of children of diverse ethnocultural communities
A study of associations between prosocial behavior and quality of social dynamics among children and teachers and if factors associated with prosocial behavior vary across children's racial or ethnic background, based on child and family data from 1,078 participants in the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project
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Teacher-child interaction and child-care auspices as predictors of social outcomes in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers
A study of the association between teacher-child interaction and children's social outcomes in infants and toddlers enrolled in 120 faith-based, for-profit and nonprofit center-based child care in three states (Massachusetts, Virginia, and Georgia)
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Varieties of self-care: A qualitative look at children's experiences in the after-school hours
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