Are teachers' education, major, and credentials related to classroom quality and children's academic gains in pre-kindergarten?
An investigation using data from the NCEDL Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten, 2001-2003, to examine if early educators' education, early childhood major, and credentials are related to classroom quality and preschool children's academic achievements
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Are there long-term effects of early child care?
An analysis of the links between early child care and school-age children's development, socioemotional functioning, and academic performance, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
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Child care experiences and developmental outcomes
A review of studies on the impact of child care quality on young children's development, taking into account the effects of differences between families using and not using nonparental child care.
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Children enrolled in public pre-K: The relation of family life, neighborhood quality, and socioeconomic resources to early competence
An examination of the relations of young children's sociodemographic characteristics, parental well-being, family functioning, and neighborhood quality to their early academic achievements and socioemotional competence
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The children of the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study go to school
The longitudinal follow up to the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study, following children for five years to assess the impact of quality of child care experiences on later development.
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The children of the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study go to school [Executive summary]
Report summarizes the key findings of the longitudinal follow up study to the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study. The longitudinal study examines developmental outcomes of quality of center-based child care.
Executive Summary
Children's classroom engagement and school readiness gains in prekindergarten
A study of the relationship between child engagement in public prekindergarten classrooms and school readiness gains, based on data from 2,751 children from the Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten and the State-Wide Early Education Programs Study (SWEEP)
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Children's social and cognitive development and child-care quality: Testing for differential associations related to poverty, gender, or ethnicity
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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CQO children go to school
Key findings of the longitudinal follow-up study to the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study (CQO) that investigates the persistence of children's benefits from participation in early childhood care through elementary school
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Development of academic skills from preschool through second grade: Family and classroom predictors of developmental trajectories
A study of the relationship between 511 children's acquisition of academic skills from preschool to second grade and their experiences with parents and teachers, based on data from the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study, spanning child care centers in four states
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The development of cognitive and academic abilities: Growth curves from an early childhood educational experiment
An examination of the effects of an early educational intervention on patterns of cognitive and academic development among 111 poor, minority children using data collected in intervals between the ages of 3 and 21
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Diversity, child care quality, and developmental outcomes
A study investigating the relationship between children's ethnicities and the validity of standardized child care quality measures, using data from the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes Study and the NICHD Study of Early Child Care
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Do effects of early child care extend to age 15 years?: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
An examination of the relationships between externalizing behavior, impulsivity, risk taking, and academic achievement at age 15 and quality of care, nonrelative child care type, care hours, and center care participation at 4 ½ years, as well as achievement and externalizing behavior at 4 ½ years and grades 1, 3, and 5, from a secondary analysis of data on 1,364 families
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Do regulable features of child-care homes affect children's development?
An analysis of the links between regulable and nonregulable features of family child care homes and infants' and toddlers' cognitive development using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care
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Early child care experiences and their association with family and child characteristics during middle childhood
A study on the positive or negative influence of non-parental child care on child behavior between the ages of 6 and 12
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Early childhood care: Relations with family characteristics and preferred care characteristics
An analysis of the relationship of features of child care arrangements, including child care hours and type and number of arrangements, to child and family demographic characteristics, including child age and ethnicity, and family income, based on data from the nationally representative National Household Education Survey, 1995 (NHES 1995)
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Early day care, infant-mother attachment, and maternal responsiveness in the infants' first year
A longitudinal study on the impact of non maternal child care on mother-child relationships and infants’ insecure maternal attachments
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Early educational intervention, early cumulative risk, and the early home environment as predictors of young adult outcomes within a high-risk sample
An examination effects of the Abecedarian study and the CARE study, two randomized trials of early intervention, on young adult outcomes and an examination of the possible mediators of early cumulative risk and the early home environment in a sample of 139 young adults at age 21, from high-risk families enrolled as infants
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Early intervention and mediating processes in cognitive performance of children of low-income African American families
A longitudinal study of the importance of the relationship among better cognitive performance, early intervention child care and responsive stimulating family care on low income African American children
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Early intervention: The moderating role of the home environment
An examination of the effect of young children's home environments on the impact of the Infant Health and Development Program, an early intervention program designed for at risk children from low income families
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Early language and the development of children's reading skills
A longitudinal study of African American children's language and reading development to examine the relations among phonological awareness, language skills, print processing skills, and reading development in prekindergarten and in second grade
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An eco-behavioral approach to examining the contextual effects of early childhood classrooms
A study of the association between both child and classroom characteristics and children's interactions with both objects and peers, based on observations of a random selection of 225 Hawaiian young children
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Effects of an early literacy professional development intervention on Head Start teachers and children
A study of the effects of participation in one semester of Classroom Links to Early Literacy on teacher's teaching practices, classroom environment, early literacy classroom supports, and children's early literacy development and an examination of pre- and post-intervention classsroom and child outcomes for teachers assigned to remote or on-site coaching conditions for 88 Head Start teachers of 759 children, across 5 Head Start programs in a midwest state
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Effects of transitions to new child care classes on infant/toddler distress and behavior
An examination of the emotional and behavioral effects of infants' and toddlers' transitions to new child care classrooms
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Examining the black-white achievement gap among low-income children using the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
An examination of family, neighborhood, and school characteristic predictors of the Black-White achievement gap in children's reading and mathematics school performance from 4½ years of age through fifth grade, based on a secondary analysis of a sample of 314 lower income Black and White American youth followed from birth
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