''Bringing reality to the table'': Contributors to the lack of parent participation in an early childhood service program
Peart, Norman A., 2000
Administration in Social Work, 24(4), 21-38
An examination of hindrances to parent participation in an early childhood service program, Smart Start, focusing on enhancing family involvement in collaborative social service partnerships
Reports & Papers
Center-based child care in the pioneer Smart Start partnerships of North Carolina
Maxwell, Kelly, 1996
Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center
An exploration of North Carolina’s Smart Start program, a partnership between state government and local leaders, service providers, and families, concerned with improving the quality of the state’s center-based child care institutions
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Child care in the pioneer partnerships: 1994 and 1996
Maxwell, Kelly, 1997
Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center.
An evaluation of North Carolina?s Smart Start pioneer partnerships in 1994 and 1996, building on the earlier Effects of Smart Start on the Quality of Preschool Child Care evaluation, focusing on services provided, teacher education and training, and overall quality
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Children's social and cognitive development and child-care quality: Testing for differential associations related to poverty, gender, or ethnicity
Burchinal, Margaret, 2000
Applied Developmental Science, 4(3), 149-165
A study of the influence of poverty, minority ethnic background, gender, and parental authoritarian beliefs on the relationship between child care quality and children’s developmental outcomes
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Contributions of hot and cool self-regulation to preschool disruptive behavior and academic achievement
Willoughby, Michael T., 2011
Developmental Neuropsychology, 36(2), 162-180
A study of the relationships among children's self regulation style, disruptive behavior, letter-word identification ability, mathematical skills, phonological awareness, inhibitory control, age, gender, and Head Start attendance, based on data from sample of 926 3-through 5-year-olds from Head Start and child care programs within a 60-mile radius of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
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Cost, quality, and child outcomes in child care centers: Public report
Helburn, Suzanne W., April, 1995
Denver: University of Colorado at Denver, Department of Economics
Findings from a study of the relationship between child care costs and quality and the concurrent effects of child care quality on children's cognitive and socioemotional outcomes, based on data from licensed community childcare sites in Los Angeles County in California, the Hartford corridor in Connecticut, the Frontal range in Colorado, and the Piedmont region in North Carolina
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Cost, quality and child outcomes in child care centers: Technical report
Helburn, Suzanne W., June, 1995
University of Colorado at Denver, Center for Research in Economic and Social Policy
An outline of the structure and design of the Cost, Quality and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study, with descriptive comparisons of the centers from which data was drawn, and a presentation of analytic study results
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Early intervention for high-risk children: The Carolina early intervention program
Ramey, Craig T., 1990
Prevention in Human Services, 7(1), 33-57
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Effects of a community initiative on the quality of child care
Bryant, Donna M., 1999
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 14(4), 449-464
A study of the impact of Smart Start, a state-funded program to implement local quality improvement initiatives on preschool quality
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The effects of Smart Start on the quality of preschool child care
Bryant, Donna M., 1997
Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center.
A study of the effects of a broad-based community initiative, Smart Start, to improve the quality of preschool child care between 1994 and 1996
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Family child care in North Carolina
Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S., 2000
Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center.
A study of quality in family child care homes in North Carolina and the relationship between quality of care and involvement in Smart Start quality improvement efforts
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Getting a "Head Start" in collaborative partnerships
Peart, Norman A., 1999
NHSA Dialog, 2(3), 389-404
An examination of the collaboration between Head Start and North Carolina’s Smart Start Initiative, focusing on factors that enhance or diminish collaborative relationships, issues that arise during collaboration’s implementation, and the structures that need to be built to increase the success and length of collaborations, based on data collected over a 2-year period through interviews with parents, Smart Start leaders and planners, and local and state Head Start agency representatives
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A longitudinal study of two early intervention strategies: Project CARE
Wasik, Barbara H., 1991
Child Development, 61(6), 1682-1696
A longitudinal study on the impacts of family education and center-based child care intervention programs on intellectual performance in developmentally at-risk children six months to four years old
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North Carolina's kindergartners & schools technical report: Addendum to the April 2001 summary report
Maxwell, Kelly, 2001
Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center.
Findings from a study of children and schools in North Carolina to determine statewide school readiness
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Overt and covert dimensions of antisocial behavior in early childhood
Willoughby, Michael T., 2001
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 29(3), 177-187
An observational study evaluating the prevalence and structure of antisocial behaviors in preschoolers: it tests whether antisocial behaviors can be differentiated into overt and covert dimensions in early childhood
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Project CARE: A comparison of two early intervention strategies
Ramey, Craig T., 1985
Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 5(2), 12-25
A study on the effects of early intervention education on the intellectual development of high-risk infants
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Quality of early childhood programs in inclusive and noninclusive settings
Buysse, Virginia, 1999
Exceptional Children, 65(3), 301-314
A study of the factors that contributed to global program quality in early childhood settings broken down by inclusive setting, those with at least one handicapped child, and noninclusive settings
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The QUINCE-PFI study: An evaluation of a promising model for child care provider training: Final report
Bryant, Donna M., September 2009
Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute.
An examination of the efficacy of an individualized, assessment-based, on-site consultation model of professional development for the quality improvement of early childhood programs, based on 108 child care classrooms and 263 family child care homes from twenty-four agencies in five states assigned to a group to receive a professional development intervention or to a control group
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A six-county study of the effects of Smart Start child care on kindergarten entry skills
Maxwell, Kelly, 1999
Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center.
A study measuring the Smart Start program's effectiveness in six North Carolina counties by comparing the school readiness of Smart Start children entering kindergarten to the readiness of children from other programs
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