Academic Rating Scale
National Center for Education Statistics, [n.d.]
Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

Instruments

Access to early childhood programs for children at risk [Executive summary]
Hofferth, Sandra L., 1994
(NCES 93-372). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

A summary of an investigation into the degree of access at-risk children have to programs providing early childhood education and care services and the quality of those programs, using data from the National Household Education Survey

Executive Summary

Age 2: Findings from the 2-year-old follow-up of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
Mulligan, Gail M., 2006
(E.D. TAB, NCES 2006-043). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

A description of the demographic characteristics, early childhood development, maternal attachment, nonparental care experiences, and father involvement of two-year-old children, based on data from the nationally representative 2-year-old follow-up of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)

Reports & Papers

America's kindergartners [Executive summary]
West, Jerry, 2000
(NCES 2000-070). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

A summary of findings from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten class of 1998-99, an assessment of the cognitive skills, social skills, health, and well being of a nationally representative sample of kindergarten children

Executive Summary

Approaching kindergarten: A look at preschoolers in the United States
Zill, Nicholas, 1995
(NCES 95-280). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

A profile of children in the United States aged three- to five-years old who have not yet started kindergarten, based on a sample of 2,000 children who had participated in the National Household Education Survey

Reports & Papers

Before- and after-school care, programs, and activities of children in kindergarten through eighth grade: 2001
Kleiner, Brian, 2004
(NCES 2004-008). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

A report on the before- and after school child care arrangements of children in kindergarten through eighth grade in 2001

Reports & Papers

Before and After School Programs and Activities (Parent 1999)
National Center for Education Statistics, 1999
Washington DC: National Center for Education Statistics

Instruments

Characteristics of children's early care and education programs: Data from the 1995 National Household Education Survey
Hofferth, Sandra L., 1998
(NCES 98-128). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

A comprehensive study of the early nonparental child care and education that children receive before entering school, with particular attention to: the type and amount of child care that children received; child care quality; the way in which child and family characteristics influenced child care selection; the way in which information about child care arrangements, particularly child care costs, indicated child care quality; and the way in which child care experiences influenced school failure.

Reports & Papers

Child care and early education arrangements of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers: 2001
Mulligan, Gail M., 2005
(NCES 2006-039). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

A collection of data on demographic patterns in non-parental care and education arrangements for children under the age of 6 as part of the National Household Education Surveys Program

Reports & Papers

Child care and early education program participation of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers
West, Jerry, 1996
(NCES 95-824). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

A study of the influence of child characteristics (e.g., age and race) and parent background (e.g., family income, mother's education and employment status) on the child care and early educational experiences of infants, toddlers and preschool children.

Reports & Papers

The children born in 2001 at kindergarten entry: First findings from the kindergarten data collections of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B): First look
Flanagan, Kristin Denton, October 2009
(NCES 2010-005). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

A description of the demographic characteristics, early reading and math skills, fine motor skills, school and classroom characteristics, and out-of-school time child care arrangements of children born in the United States in 2001 as they enter kindergarten, based on data from the nationally representative Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), collected during the 2006-2007 and 2007-2007 school years

Reports & Papers

Children's reading and mathematics achievement in kindergarten and first grade
Denton, Kristin L., 2002
(NCES 2002-125). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

A report presenting a picture of the children participating in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998û99 (ECLS-K) as first-graders

Reports & Papers

Children who enter kindergarten late or repeat kindergarten: Their characteristics and later school performance
West, Jerry, 2000
(NCES 2000-039). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

A statistical brief describing characteristics of late Kindergarten enterers or Kindergarten repeaters and later school performance based on nationally representative data

Fact Sheets & Briefs