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21st Century Community Learning Center program: A study to evaluate the success of a program in a rural county in east Tennessee An investigation of the impact of a 21st Century Community Learning Center program on students and their families in three schools in rural Tennessee and an examination of the extent to which the program successfully implemented criteria deemed necessary by the United States Department of Education |
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Alphabet knowledge in preschool: A Rasch model analysis An examination of the dimensions of the alphabet knowledge construct and the relative difficulty of different alphabet knowledge tasks--uppercase letter recognition, names, and sounds, and lowercase letter names--within a sample of 335 children recruited from 15 child care and preschool facilities in Fort Wayne, Memphis, and New York City |
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Analysis of two early childhood education settings: Classroom variables and peer verbal interaction An observational study of peer verbal interactions, types of activities, social configurations, and teacher behaviors at both a Montessori and a traditional preschool in an urban area |
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The association between type of preschool experience and student achievement of economically disadvantaged students in four northeast Tennessee schools An examination of the impact of preschool experience on low income third grade students' academic achievements as measured by the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) |
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Building their futures: How Early Head Start programs are enhancing the lives of infants and toddlers in low-income families An interim report of the random assignment, impact evaluation of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, analyzing child and family outcomes through the first two years of children's lives. |
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The child care arrangements of preschool-age children in immigrant families in the United States A comparison of the use of child care arrangements among immigrant families to non-immigrant families |
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Child-care history and kindergarten adjustment A study of the relationship between differing amounts of child care experience and the social and behavioral adjustment of kindergarteners |
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Coming together for children with disabilities: State collaboration to support quality, inclusive child care A study of state policies which would provide special education and early intervention services to low-income children with disabilities in child care programs |
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Conceptualizations of readiness and the content of early learning standards: The intersection of policy and research? An analysis of 46 state-level early education standards documents to investigate the specific areas of development addressed in order to determine how different states conceptualize school readiness |
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Cumulative risk and continuity in nonparental care from infancy to early adolescence An examination of the impact of nonparental care experiences on children's adjustment and well-being |
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Disproportionate representation in placements of preschoolers with disabilities in five southern states A comparison of racial representation in special education placements of preschool children with disabilities in five Southern states, and a comparison of the use of full inclusion, partial inclusion, or unknown inclusion type environments, based on data from 69,000 ethnically diverse preschoolers with disabilities |
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Early childhood programs: Parent education and income best predict participation A report on the demographic factors of children that best predict preschool participation |
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Early Steps to School Success: Annual evaluation report An evaluation from August 2009 through June 2010 of Early Steps to School Success, a language and literacy development program for children from birth to age 5 and their families, that examines enrollment, retention, participant characteristics, community risk context, services delivered, and both child vocabulary and home literacy outcomes, based on data collected through the program's web-based system for tracking services, child characteristics, and outcomes indicators |
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Ecobehavioral assessment in early childhood programs: A portrait of preschool inclusion An observational study of preschoolers' experiences in inclusive classrooms, examining social interactions between children with special needs and children without special needs, and comparing activities and social and nonsocial behaviors of children with special needs with those of typically developing children |
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An ecological perspective on the voluntary book use of 2- and 3-year olds in day care A study of voluntary book use in preschool settings where book rotation and the number of books available had occurred among a sample of 74 children and their teachers |
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The effect of Tennessee's prekindergarten programs on young children's school readiness skills: A regression discontinuity design A comparison of school readiness skills in samples of 179 students entering prekindergarten and 67 prekindergarten completers entering kindergarten and a second comparison upon kindergarten entry of the school readiness skills of the same 67 prekindergarten completers and 86 who had not attended prekindergarten |
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The effects of kindergarten entry age on reading achievement of second grade students A longitudinal study of the relationships between children's reading scores and their kindergarten entry age, gender, and preschool participation based on data collected in kindergarten and in second grade from 115 students |
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The effects of pre-k experience on Kindergarten Readiness Indicator scores: 4-year trends A study of the relationship of Memphis, Tennessee, kindergarteners' language and mathematics skills to their child care and early education arrangements as 4-year-olds, based on assessment scores and parent survey data from 2006 through 2009 for more than 20,000 children |
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Effects of preschool curriculum programs on school readiness: Report from the Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research initiative The final report from the Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research initiative, which conducted multi-site experimental evaluations of 14 preschool curricula's impacts on child outcomes (including behavior and early language, literacy, and math skills) at the end of preschool and in kindergarten, and on preschool classroom outcomes (including classroom quality, teacher-child interactions, and instructional practices) |
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Encounters with aggressive peers in early childhood: Frequency, age difference and correlates of risk for behavior problems A study of the influence of sex, age and family demographic characteristics on kindergartners participation in social activity settings and their exposure to aggressive peers. |
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An evaluation of a functional analysis assessment of preschool conceptual development: Examining the intervention efficacy of the Bracken Concept Development Program and the Bracken Basic Concept Scale-Revised with Head Start students An inquiry into the efficacy of the Bracken Basic Concept Scale-Revised (BBCS-R) and the Bracken Concept Development Program (BCDP), based on a sample of 54 Head Start children in Shelby County, Tennessee |
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Fathering attitudes and practices: Influences on children's development An investigation into the influence of fathers' parenting beliefs and level of modernity on their children's development, based on a sample of 525 biological fathers and stepfathers participating in the Early Head Start Research and Demonstration Project |
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Head Start children's entry into public school: A report on the National Head Start/Public School Early Childhood Transition Demonstration Study An overview of the impact, on children, families, schools, and communities, of 31 local demonstration programs, conducted as part of the National Head Start/Public School Early Childhood Transition Demonstration Study, in 30 states and the Navajo Nation from the 1991-92 school year through the 1997-98 school year, and implementing major initiatives related to: parent involvement; educational enhancement; family social support services; and health and nutrition |
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Head Start programs: Participant characteristics, services, and funding A study of several factors of the Head Start program, including the number of participants, participants' characteristics, services provided, service delivery methods, federal and non-federal dollars received and spent, and other programs providing similar early childhood services |
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Home environment and family resources to support literacy interaction: Examples from families of children with disabilities An inquiry into the resources available in the home environments of families of children with disabilities to promote children’s literacy skills, based on observations and assessments of the homes and reading sessions of 6 families of children with disabilities in eastern and central Tennessee |
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