The evolution of the National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center
Gallagher, James J., May 2009
Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 29(1), 7-23
A history of the National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center, an organization promoting access to services for young children with disabilities
Other
Financing services for 3- and 4-year olds in a prek-3rd school
Clifford, Richard M., 2009
(Issues in PreK-3rd Education No. 2). Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute, FirstSchool.
An overview of issues related to financing early childhood programs in school settings
Fact Sheets & Briefs
FirstSchool learning environments: Supporting relationships
Ritchie, Sharon, 2009
(Issues in PreK-3rd Education No. 3). Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute, FirstSchool.
An overview of the role that the physical school environment can play in supporting positive relationships among staff, children, and families
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Foreword
Clifford, Richard M., 2009
In R.C. Pianta & C. Howes (Eds.), The promise of pre-k (pp. xiii-xiv). Baltimore, Maryland: Paul H. Brookes
A foreword to a text describing state funded prekindergarten programs in terms of service delivery, finance and funding, and child outcomes as a result of participation
Other
Issues in education for children three to eight in six countries
Clifford, Richard M., 2009
(Issues in PreK-3rd Education No. 6). Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute, FirstSchool.
Profiles of the pre-elementary education systems in France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, and the United States
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Quality in kindergarten classrooms: Observational evidence for the need to increase children’s learning opportunities in early education classrooms
La Paro, Karen M., July 2009
Early Education and Development, 20(4), 657-692
An investigation of the quality and content of children’s learning experiences in kindergarten and how individual children experience classroom quality, based on data from 240 prekindergarten classroons and a subsample of 730 kindergarten classrooms attended by participants of a larger study
Reports & Papers
The relations of observed pre-k classroom quality profiles to children's achievement and social competence
Curby, Timothy W., March 2009
Early Education and Development, 20(2), 346-372
A study of the relationship between the growth in social and academic competence of children in the prekindergarten year and the level of emotional support measured in classroom teacher-child interactions, based on data collected about 2,028 prekindergarten children from several states
Reports & Papers
What is FirstSchool?
Ritchie, Sharon, 2009
(Issues in PreK-3rd Education No. 1). Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute, FirstSchool.
An overview of the values of FirstSchool, an initiative promoting a prekindergarten through third grade approach to early education
Fact Sheets & Briefs