After-school care: Child outcomes and recommendations for research and policy
A review of research on the outcomes of afterschool child care arrangements including self care, relative care, and afterschool programs.
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Age-related changes in preschool children's systematic use of private speech in a natural setting
An into the situational use of self-talk by preschool students, based on observations of 14 three- and four-year-old children from two preschool classrooms in the southeastern United States
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Child, family, and childcare predictors of delayed school entry and kindergarten retention among linguistically and ethnically diverse children
A study of potential predictors of both delayed entry into kindergarten and kindergarten retention, including child characteristics, family characteristics, and child care participation, based on a sample of 13,191 ethnically and linguistically diverse at risk children that participated in The Miami School Readiness Project
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The early developmental competencies and school readiness of low-income, immigrant children: Influences of generation, race/ethnicity, and national origins
A study of the socioemotional, behavioral, and cognitive development of first-generation, second-generation, and non-immigrant children, by immigrant status, race, and both country and region of origin, based on a sample of 2,914 subsidy-receiving Miami-area 4-year-old children attending child care or preschool
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The effects of a creative dance and movement program on the social competence of Head Start preschoolers
An evaluation of the impact of an eight week creative dance program on Head Start children's social competence and behavior problems
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Identity texts and literacy development among preschool English language learners: Enhancing learning opportunities for children at risk for learning disabilities
A description and evaluation of the implementation of the Early Authors Program (EAP), an early language intervention designed to aid in the development of emergent literacy skills of bilingual preschool children at risk for learning disabilities
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Observations of children's task activities and social interactions in relation to teacher perceptions in a child-centered classroom: Are we leaving too much to chance?
An observational study of how preschool teachers working at a high quality preschool program interpreted child-centered instruction and how their interpretation affected children's daily activities and behavior
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Parent-teacher agreement and reliability on the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (DECA) in English and Spanish for ethnically diverse children living in poverty
An examination of the internal consistency reliability and parent-teacher agreement on the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment, English and Spanish forms, a 37-item parent- and teacher-report instrument of children's initiative, self-control, attachment, protective factors, and behavioral concerns, for use with children 2- through 5-years-old, based on data from a sample of 7,756 impoverished, ethnically diverse preschoolers in Miami, Florida
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Private speech in preschool children: Developmental stability and change, across-task consistency, and relations with classroom behaviour
An observational study of preschool children's private speech development and whether it is predictive of behavior at school and at home
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School readiness gains made by ethnically diverse children in poverty attending center-based childcare and public school pre-kindergarten programs
A comparison of the developmental gains of poor children in Title 1 public prekindergartens, fee-supported public prekindergartens, and subsidized center-based care, and an exploration of the moderating influences of gender and ethnicity on development, based on a population of 3838 children in Miami-Dade County
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School readiness: The need for a paradigm shift
A discussion of the theoretical background to the concept of school readiness and a critical review of educational placement options available for children deemed as ''unready'' for kindergarten entry
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"Should I let them talk?": Private speech and task performance among preschool children with and without behavior problems
A comparison of the effects of preschool children's private speech use on task performance for a group of 29 behaviorally at-risk children and a group of 43 control children during a speech-action coordination task
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Singing one's way to self-regulation: The role of early music and movement curricula and private speech
A study of the relationship between enrollment in a Kindermusik early childhood music and movement program and children's self-regulatory skills, based on a survey of parents, observations, and task completion of 89 children between 36 and 64 months from mid-Atlantic metropolitan area
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The social and behavioral ecology of mixed-age and same-age preschool classrooms: A natural experiment
A longitudinal, naturalistic study comparing the socio-emotional behaviors of preschool children enrolled in same- and mixed-age classrooms
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Stability and sequence of center-based and family childcare: Links with low-income children's school readiness
A two-year longitudinal comparison of school readiness among children who either remain in the same type of child care--family or center-based--or switch to the other type or to a public school prekindergarten program, based on data from 2,682 ethnically and linguistically diverse low income children, aged 3 through 4 years, participating in the Miami School Readiness Project in Miami-Dade County, Florida
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Supporting optimal child development through Early Head Start and Head Start programs: Reflections on secondary data analyses of FACES and EHSREP
We are delighted to reflect on the 10 papers highlighted in this important special issue of Early Childhood Research Quarterly devoted to recent secondary data analyses of the FACES and EHSREP datasets. First, we provide some background on Head Start research and give an overview of the large-scale Head Start and Early Head Start datasets that are available for researchers to analyze. Then, we comment on the papers in this special issue from a methodological and statistical standpoint. Finally, we reflect on themes that stood out across the various papers. Throughout, we make recommendations for future large-scale data collection efforts and future research on Head Start and Early Head Start programs. (author abstract)
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Supporting optimal child development through Early Head Start and Head Start Programs: Secondary data analyses of FACES and EHSREP [Special issue]
A special issue of the journal Early Childhood Research Quarterly, focusing on the outcomes of select groups of children, the participation and characteristics of families, and the quality of settings and programs, in both Head Start and Early Head Start, based on secondary analyses of the datasets of the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) and the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project (EHSREP)
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Teacher and center stability and school readiness among low-income, ethnically diverse children in subsidized, center-based child care
An investigation of the relationships between cognitive, language, and socioemotional skill development over the course of a year and teacher and/or center stability, as well as an investigation of the influence of gender and ethnicity on that relationship, based on data from 3,238 four-year-olds in center-based child care in Miami
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