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Access to Quality Child Care in Montana: Exploring Parent and Provider Perspectives An examination of the capacity of Montana's child care system to serve Native American families and rural families of children with disabilities. The study focuses on issues of access, supply, and demand, and seeks to determine whether the availability of child care services is substantially different for Native American children and children with disabilities than for other families. Methodology includes parent and provider surveys as well as on-site assessment of child care programs. |
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Adult attunement and child availability: Interaction of mother and caregiver with three-year-old Kibbutz children An investigation of adult attentiveness and intrusiveness in dyadic relations between children and their mothers and caregivers, in a sample of 33 three-year-old Kibbutz children in Israel |
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African American and Puerto Rican American parenting styles, paternal involvement, and Head Start children's social competence A comparison of African-American and Puerto Rican-American parenting styles and paternal involvement, and an examination of the relationship of mother’s and father’s parenting styles and child care involvement on Head Start participating children’s social competence |
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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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All children are ready to learn: An emergent versus readiness perspective in early literacy assessment A discussion of the differences between emergent literacy and reading readiness and a description of Marie Clay's contribution to assessing reading readiness as well as strategies to help implement her assessment techniques with young children with special needs |
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America's children: Key national indicators of well-being, 2000 An annual report of national indicators of child well-being designed to monitor change over time |
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America's kindergartners A compilation of descriptive statistics and findings on first-time kindergarten students from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten (ECLS-K). |
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America's kindergartners [Executive summary] A summary of findings from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten class of 1998-99, an assessment of the cognitive skills, social skills, health, and well being of a nationally representative sample of kindergarten children |
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Another look at the elephant: Child care in the nineties An overview of the links between child care and children's outcomes, and a discussion of the role of the family in child care selection and participation, with a focus on the literature of the 1990s |
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Assessing preschoolers' self-regulation in homes and classrooms: Lessons from the field A pilot study of the Games As Measurement for Early Self-Control (GAMES) method for assessing preschool children’s ability to control their attention span and inhibitions, based on a sample of 71 children in a Head Start program |
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Assessment challenges and solutions with young second language learning children A transcript of a dialog between professionals on various approaches to the education of children learning English as a second language |
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Assisted housing and the educational attainment of children A study on the effects of housing assistance on the educational attainment of children, based on the longitudinal following of all participants in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) |
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Background for community-level work on school readiness: A review of definitions, assessments, and investment strategies A presentation of recommendations from the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP) for defining and measuring school readiness, and a summary of suggested community initiatives based on a review of the relevant literature |
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Background for community-level work on school readiness: A review of definitions, assessments, and investment strategies [Executive summary] A summary of a report designed to educate communities regarding school readiness assessment and the ecological factors involved in a child's successful transition to kindergarten |
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Beginning reading instruction: Towards levelling the playing field A comparison of the reading-related test scores of 7 children before and after an 8 week shared reading intervention, based on data collected from 6 voluntary participant low income families living in a small city in New South Wales |
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Behavior problems in African American boys and girls attending Head Start programs in violent neighborhoods An examination of behavioral problems, and their severity, exhibited by African American children attending a Head Start program in a violent neighborhood, based on a sample of 312 mothers of Head Start children in the Washington, D.C.-metro area, who assessed their children using the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) |
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Benefits of a comprehensive technology system in an early childhood setting: Results of a three-year study An study of the effects of a comprehensive system of technology integration and services for children with disabilities on student engagement, fine motor skills, visual motor skills, emergent literacy, and communication and social skills |
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Best practices in measuring growth and development for preschool children A paper on the development and application of Individual Growth and Development Indicators, indicators of performance in major developmental domains used for monitoring the rate of development of children ages 30 to 66 months |
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Bilingual means two: Assessment issues, early literacy and Spanish speaking children A paper outlining issues in the instruction of two-language children in reading and writing and implications for bilingual education programs. |
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A book reading intervention with preschool children who have limited vocabularies: The benefits of regular reading and dialogic reading A study of the effects of storybook reading on the acquisition of vocabulary for preschool children who have poor vocabulary skills |
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A call to commitment: Fathers' involvement in children's learning An investigation into the influence of fathers’ involvement in children’s early education on children’s development and outcomes |
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Caretakers, child care practices, and growth failure in highland Ecuador An examination of the relationship between sibling and peer child care and children’s physical health and development in the highlands of Ecuador |
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Celebrating cultural and linguistic diversity in Head Start A descriptive study of cultural and linguistic groups and their distribution within the Head Start population, Head Start services developed to address the needs of children and families from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and challenges faced by Head Start programs as they address the needs of an increasingly diverse population |
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Chicago Longitudinal Study A summary of the Chicago Longitudinal Study, an investigation of the educational and social development of 1,539 low income children who grew up in high-poverty neighborhoods in Chicago |
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Child-care and early education: Policy problems and options: Latino Caucus Retreat A briefing paper articulating basic problems confronting system of childcare and early education for Latino working families in California and policy recommendations to address those problems |
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