After-school program attendance and the social development of rural Latino children of immigrant families
A study of the influence of attendance on the social outcomes of Latino elementary school children who participated in an academically-oriented after school program, based on attendance records and teacher, parent, and child questionnaires
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Are insecure-avoidant infants with extensive day-care experience less stressed by and more independent in the Strange Situation
A study of the relationship between child reactions to stressful situations and the amount of non-parental child care experienced by the child in his or her first year, in a sample of 20 insecure-avoidant infants
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Arts enrichment and preschool emotions for low-income children at risk
A comparison of emotion expression and regulation in children attending both arts-integrated and non-arts integrated Head start programs, based on data from 182 low income children
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Arts enrichment and school readiness for children at risk
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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Before Head Start: Income and ethnicity, family characteristics, child care experiences, and child development
A study of a large sample of three-year-old children relating ethnic background, three levels of family income, family characteristics and experiences in child care to child development
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Behavioral and cognitive readiness for school: Cross-domain associations for children attending Head Start
An examination of the correlations between behavioral measures of school readiness and both academic knowledge and executive function in a sample of 356 4-year-old children in Head Start programs in three Pennsylvania counties
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Book reading interactions between African American and Puerto Rican Head Start children and their mothers
An observational study examining and comparing the interaction styles between African American and Puerto Rican mothers and their Head Start children during shared book reading
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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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Caring for infant daughters and sons in dual-earner households: Maternal reports of father involvement in weekday time and tasks
A study of maternal reports of gender differences in weekday father involvement with 12-month-olds in 47 dual earner households utilizing full time infant day care with a focus on father’s time alone with infants, time available to the infant, and participation in care giving tasks
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Change in family income-to-needs matters more for children with less
An examination of changes in family income-to-needs and its effect on young children's cognitive, language, and behavioral development and outcomes using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care
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Child-care and family predictors of preschool attachment and stability from infancy
An analysis of the relationship between family factors and infant and toddler child care experiences and preschool attachment, using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care
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Child care and mother-child interaction in the first 3 years of life
An analysis of the effects of child care on maternal sensitivity and child engagement during the first three years of life based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care
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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 effect sizes for the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
A report of findings on the effect sizes for exclusive maternal care and, for children in child care, for type, quality, and quantity of care, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
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Child care structure, process, outcome: Direct and indirect effects of child care quality on young children's development
A study exploring whether process measures of child care quality mediate the relationship between structural features of child care quality and child outcomes, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care
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Child care teachers' response to children's emotional expression
A study of child care center teachers' responses to children's emotional expressions using systematic observational methods
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Child care teachers' strategies in children's socialization of emotion
An investigation of ways in which child care teachers socialize children's emotional expression
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Child developmental impact of Pittsburgh's Early Childhood Initiative (ECI) in high-risk communities: First-phase authentic evaluation research
An inquiry into the correlation between participation in an early childhood program and children’s outcomes, based on an assessment of 155 high-risk youth who participated in the Early Childhood Initiative (ECI) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Child voice: How immigrant children enlightened their teachers with a camera
A qualitative exploration of child-teacher communication in an exercise in which photographs are taken by students, based on observations of 14 foreign-born or first generation 3- through 5-year old preschool children and 6 preschool teachers from a private preschool in an upper-middle class neighborhood in Central Pennsylvania
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Chronicity of maternal depressive symptoms, maternal sensitivity, and child functioning at 36 months
An examination of maternal symptoms of depression over the first 3 years of children’s lives in relation to mother-child interactions and children’s development at 36 months
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Can instructional and emotional support in the first-grade classroom make a difference for children at risk of school failure?
An examination of ways children’s risk of school failure may be reduced by support from teachers, based on a national study of 910 children, ages 5-6, identified as at risk on the basis of demographic characteristics and their kindergarten teachers’ observations of behavioral, attention, academic, and/or social difficulties
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Classroom observations of teacher-child relationships among racially symmetrical and racially asymmetrical teacher-child dyads
A study of racial bias in teacher interactions with children, patterns in interactions with children from different racial groups if teachers are racially biased, and an explanation of children's misbehavior under the racially asymmetrical situation, based on data from 8 teachers and 41 children from 4 racially- and linguistically-diverse Head Start classrooms in western Pennsylvania
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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 parenting stress across the preschool period: Relations to maternal parenting and child behaviour at age 5
A study of cumulative parenting stress across two domains, life events, and parenting daily challenges, assessed with children 3-5 years old in a sample of 125 children and their mothers
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