Does your organization welcome participants with disabilities?: A new assessment tool
An introduction to the Organizational Developmental Model of Inclusion for Individuals with Disabilities (ODMI-IWD) instrument to help afterschool providers examine the extent to which their organizations welcome children and youth with disabilities and a report of findings from five large scale after school providers in southern California that serve more than 30,000 students
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Early care experiences: Their relation to social skills and behavior in kindergarten
An investigation of the relationship between the number of years children receive parental care and their social skills in kindergarten, and an examination of the mediating variables of gender and socioeconomic status, based on data collected from 43 children at a kindergarten in Murrieta, California
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Effective early literacy skill development for young Spanish-speaking English language learners: An experimental study of two methods
An investigation of the effect of the Literacy Express Preschool Curriculum on the acquisition of emergent literacy skills by Spanish-speaking preschool children, based on a study of three groups of English language learners (ELL) from 10 Head Start classrooms in California where 32 children received the regular curriculum, 31 children received the intervention in English-only, and 31 children received the intervention in Spanish transitioning to English
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The effect of curriculum, coaching, and professional development on prekindergarten children’s literacy achievement
A study of the effect of Southern California’s Preschool Literacy Project, which provides a specialized curriculum, teacher coaching, a print-rich environment, and professional development opportunities to teachers, on the literacy scores of the participating children, based on data collected from 22 state preschool classrooms serving children from low income families
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Evaluation of the First 5 LA Family Literacy Initiative: Year 5/6 report
Findings from the fifth and sixth years of the implementation and impact evaluation of the First 5 LA Family Literacy Initiative, a comprehensive program to promote literacy among low-income families in Los Angeles County, that examined program characteristics and quality and child and parent outcomes
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Exploring the relationship between LA's BEST program attendance and cognitive gains of LA's BEST students
A study of the relationship of different levels of participation in LA's BEST, an after school program for urban elementary school children in Los Angeles County that aims to enhance children's intellectual, social, and emotional development, to students' academic achievement
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Full-day kindergarten in California: Lessons from Los Angeles
An investigation of the effect of full-day public prekindergarten on children’s outcomes, with a focus on economically disadvantaged students and English language learners who attended public prekindergarten programs in Los Angeles, California
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Los Angeles Universal Preschool programs, children served, and children’s progress in the preschool year: Final report of the First 5 LA Universal Preschool Child Outcomes Study: Final report
An inquiry into the academic, developmental, and health related outcomes of the children enrolled in the universal prekindergarten program of Los Angeles County, California, based on direct assessments and interviews with parents and teachers
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Mother-child planning, child emotional functioning, and children's transition to first grade
An investigation into the correlation between the setting of goals for activities and children’s emotional functioning, and an examination in the role of this correlation in children’s transition to first grade, based on a sample of 90 first grade children and their mothers from five preschools in Southern California
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Parents' and teachers' perceptions of school readiness
A comparison of both social skills and problem behaviors of 113 kindergarteners who either did or did not receive Head Start services in one central California school district
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Predictions of children's experiences with Latina family child care providers
A study of associations between provider education, global quality, teaching style, and children's engagement in pre-academic activities, based on data collected from 115 family child care settings operated by Latina women of Mexican heritage serving low income communities in California
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Preschoolers' use of count information to judge relative quantity
A two-part study of preschool children's use of count information in making quantity judgments, based on one sample of 35 children 3 through 5 years old, and a second sample of 54 children 3 and 4 years old
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Redwood City School District & Preschool for All: School readiness assessment 2008: A review of 2005 and 2008 school readiness data and the readiness outcomes of Preschool for All graduates
A comparison of the skills at kindergarten entry of children who participated in Preschool for All, a free part-day preschool program for four-year-old children in Redwood City, California, to the skills of nonparticipant children in Redwood City, and to the skills of children in the rest of San Mateo County, based on parent surveys and kindergarten teacher surveys and child assessments
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The role of child gender and ethnicity in teacher-child relationship quality and children’s behavioral adjustment in preschool
A study of the influence of child gender, child ethnicity, and teacher-child ethnic match on the association between teacher-child relationship quality and children’s behavioral competence, based on data collected from several hundred white and Mexican-American children in Head Start classrooms in two geographic areas
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School readiness in Santa Clara County: Results of the 2008 assessment
A study of children's transitions to and skills at kindergarten entry, and family and early childhood education factors associated with those skills, in Santa Clara County, California, based on parent surveys and kindergarten teacher surveys and child assessments
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School readiness in San Mateo County: Results of the 2008 assessment
A study of children's transitions to and skills at kindergarten entry, and family and early childhood education factors associated with those skills, in San Mateo County, California, based on parent surveys and kindergarten teacher surveys and child assessments
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A summary of school readiness in two high-need schools: Results of a comprehensive assessment effort in two targeted Santa Clara County elementary schools
Results of a pilot project in two Santa Clara County, California, elementary schools for kindergarten teachers to systematically collect school readiness assessment data on entering kindergarten students, including on their skills and transitions to kindergarten
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Summative evaluation of the Ready to Learn Initiative: Preschool teachers can use a media-rich curriculum to prepare low-income children for school success: Results of a randomized controlled trial
An investigation of the effect of the inclusion of children's video programming in the preschool curriculum on children's early literacy skills, based on a random sample of 398 low-income children aged 4 and 5 years old from 80 preschool classrooms from 47 child care centers in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area assigned to receive a 10 week technology-supported literacy curriculum or a 10 week technology-supported science curriculum comparison group
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Supporting teachers in assessing the language and literacy skills of preschool English language learners
An 8 week action research project to pilot the Desired Results Developmental Profile-Revised 2 (DRDP-R2) assessment as a measure of the development and improvement of language skills of 212 preschool and kindergarten children, predominantly English language learners, based on field notes, document analysis, classroom observations and interviews with administrators, teachers, and experts
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Trends in childcare and preschool enrollment among Latino children in California
A study of the characteristics of preschool enrollment rates among Latino children in California and of the attitudes and preferences of California Latino parents toward preschool, based on analyses of data from the 2005 and 2006 American Community Survey and the 2001 Statewide Survey of Parents with Young Children in California
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Understanding the spatial relationship between access to early care and education services and maltreatment of young children
A study of the relationships between rates of child maltreatment referrals involving children birth through 5-years-old and access to early care and education resources, using controls for population density, concentrated disadvantage, residential instability, child care burden, concentration of residents born in the United States, concentrated affluence, and ethnic heterogeneity, based on an analysis of United States Census data in Los Angeles County and other data sources
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Youths' caretaking of their adolescent sisters' children: Results from two longitudinal studies
An examination of the relationship between hours of care for thier adolescent sister's children and gender, ethnicity, and family backgrounds in a sample of 132 Latino and African American youth and a second examination of the relationship between hours of care for thier adolescent sister's children and family background, gender, and care experiences across time, for 110 Latino adolescents
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