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2009-2010 implementation & expansion of the Child Development Education Pilot Program (CDEPP): Evaluation report
South Carolina Education Oversight Committee, 01 January, 2010
Columbia: South Carolina Education Oversight Committee.

Findings from an evaluation of the fourth year of the Child Development Education Pilot Program (CDEPP), South Carolina's early childhood education program to improve the school readiness of students in poverty, during the 2009-2010 program year

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2010 Maine Children’s Growth Council report: School readiness
Maine Children's Alliance, 2010
Augusta: Maine, Children's Growth Council.

A profile of families, communities, early childhood education and care programs, and schools in Maine and their influence on children’s school readiness

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Access to educational and community activities for young children with disabilities: Selected findings from the Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study (PEELS)
Carlson, Elaine, October 2010
(NCSER 2011-3000). Washington, DC: National Center for Special Education Research.

A study of the kindergarten experiences and extracurricular and family recreation activities of children with disabilities ages 5 through 7, based on data from the nationally representative Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study (PEELS)

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ACF/OPRE report: Head Start children go to kindergarten
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A profile of the development, families, and home and school environments of kindergarten children who had entered Head Start in the fall of 2006, based on data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2006 (FACES 2006)

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ACF-OPRE report: A second year in Head Start: Characteristics and outcomes of children who entered the program at age three
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A profile of the development, families, and home environments of children participating in their second year of Head Start who had entered the program at age 3 in the fall of 2006, based on spring 2008 data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2006 (FACES 2006)

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ACF-OPRE report: A year in Head Start: Children, families and programs
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, October, 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A profile of the characteristics of Head Start children and families and their home and Head Start classroom environments from fall 2006 through spring 2007, including children's cognitive, physical, and socioemotional development, and Head Start classroom curricula and activities, based on data collected from a sample of 60 Head Start programs, 135 centers, 410 classrooms, 365 teachers, and 3,315 children and their parents

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Achievement of children in the early years foundation stage profile
Great Britain. Department for Education. School Analysis and Research Division, September 2010
(Research Report DFE-RR034). Runcorn, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Education.

Findings from an annual assessment of students achievement at the end of their participation in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), based on data for all children who attended the program from 2007 through 2009

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America After 3PM: From big cities to small towns
Afterschool Alliance, October 2010
Washington, DC: Afterschool Alliance.

A study of the after school child care arrangements of kindergarten through grade 12 students by urbanicity during the 2008-2009 school year, based on a survey of nearly 30,000 households

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An analysis of the effects of in-service teacher training on Turkish preschool teachers' attitudes towards inclusion
Secer, Zarife, March 2010
International Journal of Early Years Education, 18(1), 43-53

An examination of attitudes towards inclusion prior to and after an in-service training on children with special educational needs from a survey of 66 preschool teachers

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Arts enrichment and school readiness for children at risk
Brown, Eleanor D., Q1 2010
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 25(1), 112-124

A study of the growth of children's school readiness skills among low income and at risk children of different levels of development at a preschool using the Kaleidoscope arts enrichment curriculum, and a comparison of the vocabulary scores of children in this program with those of children in a nearby traditional preschool

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Assessing preschool number sense: Skills demonstrated by children prior to school entry
Howell, Sally, July 2010
Educational Psychology, 30(4), 411-429

A study of the relationships between mathematics difficulties, receptive vocabulary, and mathematical skills, a second study of essential components of early number sense, and a third study of the relationship between receptive vocabulary and mathematics skills and both type of early childhood setting and gender for 176 children at preschools and child care centers in a socially inclusive urban area of Sydney, Australia

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Associations among child care, family, and behavior outcomes in a nation-wide sample of preschool-aged children
Romano, Elisa, September 2010
International Journal of Behavioral Development, 34(5), 427–440

A study of the relationships among child care choice, family characteristics, and child behaviors, based on a secondary analysis of data on 4,521 4- and 5-year-olds in Canada

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Auditory processing and early literacy skills in a preschool and kindergarten population
Corriveau, Kathleen H. , July/August 2010
Journal of Learning Disabilities, 43(4), 369-382

A study of relationships among auditory processing, phonological awareness, early literacy skills, and general ability, in a sample of 88 3- to 6-year-old children and a subsample of 25 tested at twice over the course of one year

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Balancing the readiness equation in early childhood education reform
Brown, Christopher P., June 2010
Journal of Early Childhood Research, 8(2), 133-160

A case study of the design and implementation of an assessment tool that defines and aligns teacher academic performance expectations for students with school district standards from field notes, document analysis and interviews with 11 assessment task force members and 15 staff of a prekindergarten program in an urban district in Texas

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Barney and breakfast: Messages about food and eating in preschool television shows and how they may impact the development of eating behaviours in children
Anderson, Leslie Margaret, December 2010
Early Child Development and Care, 180(10), 1323-1336

An exploration of messages about food and diet in preschool television programming, based on a visual analysis of two or more episodes each of 10 randomly selected television shows from a television network that targets children aged two through five years old in Canada

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Behaviour patterns in daily mother-child separations: Possible opportunities for stress reduction
Klein, Pnina S., April, 2010
Early Child Development and Care, 180(3), 387-396

An examination of mother-child, mother-child-caregiver, mother-caregiver and child-caregiver patterns of interaction processes of separation when mothers leave their infants in out-of-home group care, from videotapes and observations of 24 parent-infant dyads and child care personnel recruited from three child care centers in an urban area in central Israel

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Biological sensitivity to context: The interactive effects of stress reactivity and family adversity on socioemotional behavior and school readiness
Obradovic, Jelena, January/February 2010
Child Development, 81(1), 270-289

An examination of the direct and interactive effects of stress reactivity and family adversity on socioemotional and cognitive development in 338 children age 5 to 6 years, in a longitudinal study of social status, biological responses to adversity, and child mental and physical health in three waves from California 29 kindergarten classrooms

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Bright Futures Early Reading First: Year three summary evaluation report
Caverly, Sarah L., September 30, 2010
Austin, TX: SEDL.

An evaluation of the Bright Futures Early Reading First project, which provides professional support to teachers implementing early literacy curricula in Madison Parish, Louisiana, that examined children's literacy outcomes, professional development and classroom quality, and parent involvement

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Broadening the horizon: Toddlers' strategies for learning mathematics
Bjorklund, Camilla, March, 2010
International Journal of Early Years Education, 18(1), 71-84

An analysis of observations of strategies that toddlers initiate to enhance their understanding of basic aspects of mathematics, based on video observations of 23 children between 13 and 45 months old in 2 child care centers in Finland

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Building bridges to promote educational well-being: A population-based study of the impact and timing of out-of-home placement, child maltreatment & homelessness
Perlman, Staci M., 2010
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

A study of the prevalence of out-of-home placement in a cohort of second grade students in an urban public school system, of the relationship of out-of-home placement to educational outcomes, and of first experiences of child maltreatment and homelessness as predictors of out-of-home placement, based on data for 12,045 second grade students from an integrated administrative data set

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Caregiver involvement in infant peer interactions: Scaffolding in a social context
Williams, Shannon, Q2 2010
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 25(2), 251-266

An examination of child care provider guidance of young children and their early social experiences with peers during infancy from videotapes of 36 infants in three center-based infant child care programs in a medium-sized city in Northern California, that were part of a larger study infant development within the contexts of child care and home environments

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Center-based care in the context of one-child policy in China: Do child gender and siblings matter?
Zhai, Fuhua, October, 2010
Population Research and Policy Review, 29(5), 745-774

An examination of the relationships among center-based care enrollment and child's age, gender, siblings, sibling age, and child care facility availability, as well as the moderating influence of household and community resources and one-child policy in China on those relationships, based on data from 784 children and their parents in the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) 2000

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Centering community services around early childhood care and development: Promising practices in indigenous communities in Canada
Ball, Jessica, 2010
Child Health and Education, 2(2), 28-51

An examination of the relationship between the participation of three groups of Canadian indigenous communities in the First Nations Partnership Program, a bicultural university-accredited diploma program in child and youth care, and the funding, organization, and outreach efforts of locally-based programs that serve those communities' child care and development needs, based on interviews, questionnaires, and group discussions with 76 community members

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Changes in body mass index z score over the course of the academic year among children attending Head Start
Lumeng, Julie C., May/June 2010
Academic Pediatrics, 10(3), 179-186

A study of changes in children's body mass index (BMI) over the course of enrollment in Head Start and examination of variations in BMI by gender, single-parent status, program year, race, age at initial enrollment, and family income divided by household size, from a secondary analysis of retrospective longitudinal growth of 1,914 children enrolled in a Michigan Head Start program over 2 academic years and the intervening summer

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The Child and Adult Care Food Program: Who is served and what are their nutritional outcomes?
Gordon, Rachel A., July 2010
(NBER Working Paper Series No. 16148). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.

An inquiry into whether the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) reaches its targeted population, and an examination of the relationship between the food intake, weight, and food security of CACFP participants, based on data on more than 10,000 children who participated in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)

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