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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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21st Century Community Learning Centers: Evaluation of projects funded for the 2003-04 school year An examination of the impact of children’s participation in after school learning programs, created or expanded pursuant to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as amended by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001, on their academic performance in various categories |
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21st Century Community Learning Centers: Evaluation of projects funded for the 2003-04 school year [Executive summary] A summary of an examination of the impact of children’s participation in after school learning programs, created or expanded pursuant to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as amended by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001, on their academic performance in various categories |
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Access to print for children in poverty: Differential effects of adult mediation and literacy-enriched play settings on environmental and functional print tasks An article on the effects of adult interaction and literacy environment on literacy development in Head Start children. |
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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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An African American youth mentoring program: A pilot study An investigation of the effectiveness of a youth mentoring program in terms of character, skills, and attitude development in order to help prepare African American young people for school and life success |
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An after-school obesity prevention program for African-American girls: The Minnesota GEMS pilot study A presentation of findings on the development of an after school obesity prevention program for African-American girls in Minnesota, based on a sample of 54 8 to 10-year-old girls and their caregivers |
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An after-school program for elementary school aged children: Academic and socio-emotional outcomes An investigation of the effects of an after-school program on elementary school students' academic and socioemotional outcomes, examining the relationship between students' outcomes and duration of program participation |
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Afterschool programs: Helping kids succeed in rural America An overview of the special challenges faced by poor children in rural areas and examples of after school programs successfully meeting these challenges |
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All children thriving: Pre-Birth Through Age Three initiative A discussion of the implementation of the Pre-Birth Through Age Three (PB3) Initiative to improve children’s outcomes in rural counties in Michigan, Minnesota, and Ohio |
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America's early childhood literacy gap An overview of children's early literacy development, the early literacy skills gap between children from low-income and middle-income families, and the role of early interventions in reducing the gap |
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American Indian and Alaska Native young children: Findings from the ECLS-K and ECLS-B baseline data A summary focusing on the school readiness of American Indian and Alaska Native children in rural and non-rural areas |
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Approaches to learning in kindergarten: Associations with child and family background variables An analysis of the relationship between socio-demographic characteristics of kindergarteners, such as race, ethnicity, poverty status, maternal education and child care experience, and the way young children approach learning, using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten class of 1998-99 |
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Are two years better than one year?: A propensity score analysis of the impact of Head Start program duration on children's school performance in kindergarten A comparison of academic and social outcomes by the end of kindergarten between children who attended Head Start for two years and the ones who attended for one year, based on data from 1,778 Head Start children from the Family and Child Experience Survey (FACES) |
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Assessing all children An overview of research on select appropriateness and bias issues surrounding the use of national assessments with young children from racial or language minority groups or who have special needs |
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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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Associations among family environment, sustained attention, and school readiness for low-income children A study of sustained attention as a mediator of the relationship between family environment and school readiness, based on data from 1,046 low income children, with family environment data collected at 3-years-old and both attention and school readiness data collected at 5-years of age |
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The attitudes of early childhood teachers toward gender roles and toward discipline An examination of teachers’ attitudes toward gender roles and discipline of male and female students, based on a sample of 131 early childhood teachers |
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Australian indigenous perspectives on quality assurance in children's services An exploration of aboriginal perspectives of quality and quality rating of child care centers collected during focus groups and interviews with a total of 478 aboriginal stakeholders from across Australia |
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Becoming literate in the city: The Baltimore Early Childhood Projects A longitudinal study examining the literacy development of African American and European American children with low-income and middle-income backgrounds between prekindergarten and third grade |
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Before Head Start: Income and ethnicity, family characteristics, child care experiences, and child development [Abridged] A description of demographic, family context, income, and developmental characteristics of Head Start children and their families at 3 years of age, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care |
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Beginning school ready to learn: The impact of the Head Start Early Childhood Education Program on Hispanic children An examination of the relationship between attendance at Head Start's Early Childhood Education Program and Hispanic children's ability to begin kindergarten ready to learn from in depth interviews with 11 female employeees at a Head Start program in Southern California |
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A behavior-genetic study of the legacy of early caregiving experiences: Academic skills, social competence, and externalizing behavior in kindergarten A behavior-genetic study of associations between early parental support and academic skills, social competence, and externalizing behavior in kindergarten, based on assessments, at 24 months and approximately age 4, of a sample of 485 same-sex twin pairs from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), born in 2001, and tracked through kindergarten |
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The Between the Lions American Indian Literacy Initiative research component: Report prepared for the United States Department of Education An investigation of the influence of the Between the Lions television program on American Indian children’s early literacy skills, based on a two-year study of Head Start children from 11 aboriginal communities in New Mexico |
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Beyond developmentalism?: Early childhood teachers' understandings of multiage grouping in early childhood educaton and care An examination of early childhood teachers' understanding of multiage grouping from observations, informal interviews with children, photographic documentation, and focus groups over an eleven month period across three early childhood centers located in an Australian city |
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