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Assessing school readiness in Santa Mateo County 2002: Results from the 2002 School Readiness Assessment Project
Peninsula Community Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.). Peninsula Partnership for Children, Youth and Families, 2003
San Mateo, CA: Peninsula Community Foundation, Peninsula Partnership for Children, Youth and Families.

A study of children's skills at kindergarten entry and family and early childhood education factors associated with those skills in San Mateo County, California, based on kindergarten teacher surveys and child assessments

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An assessment of students in a content-based English language development curriculum for an after-school program
Parks, Molly C., 2005
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of the Pacific, San Francisco

An evaluation of an after school program curriculum designed to improve students' English language development

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Beginning school ready to learn: The impact of the Head Start Early Childhood Education Program on Hispanic children
Reyes-Dott, Kimberly Cummings, 2008
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Alliant International University, Fresno, CA

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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Behavioral Consultation project: Final evaluation report
First 5 Sonoma County (Organization), June, 2004
Santa Rosa, CA: First 5 Sonoma County. (No longer accessible as of April 15, 2013).

An assessment of the Child Care Behavioral Consultation project, designed to address professional needs of providers caring for children with challenging behaviors and improve the quality of care through on-site short-term consultation, cross-disciplinary training and ongoing group case review with early childhood specialists and mental health clinicians

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Child care and child development: The NICHD Study of Early Child Care
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 1994
In Developmental follow-up: Concepts, domains and methods. (pp. 377-396). San Diego, CA: Academic Press, Inc.

A description of the theoretical framework for the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care, assessing relationships among family life, child care processes and child behavioral development

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Child care and children's peer interaction at 24 and 36 months: The NICHD Study of Early Child Care
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2001
Child Development, 72(5), 1478-1500

A study of how time spent in child care, child care quality, and availability of peers relate to children's peer social competence at 23 and 36 months, using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care

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Child care and common communicable illnesses [Abridged]
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005
In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 175-183). New York: Guilford Press

A study of the relationship between children’s experience in nonmaternal care and rates of respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract, and ear infections during the first 3 years of life

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Child care and common communicable illnesses in children aged 37 to 54 months
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 157(2), 196-200

A study of the relationship between experience in child care and common communicable illnesses in children aged 37 to 54 months

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Child care and common communicable illnesses in children ages 37-54 months [Abridged]
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005
In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 184-190). New York: Guilford Press

A study of the relationship between children’s experience in nonmaternal care and rates of respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract, and ear infections from 3 to 41/2 years old in a sample of approximately 1,100 children

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Child care and common communicable illnesses: Results from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2001
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 155(4), 481-488

An examination of the relationship between experiences in child care and communicable illnesses (gastrointestinal tract illness, upper respiratory tract infection, and ear infections or otitis media) through a child's first 3 years of life, and an investigation of the relationship between the increased frequency of these illnesses and language development, school readiness, and behavior problems

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Child care and mother-child interaction in the first 3 years of life [Abridged]
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005
In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 231-245). New York: Guilford Press

A study of the interaction between child care quality, stability, amount and mother-child relatedness in the first 3 years of life

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Child care structure, process, outcome: Direct and indirect effects of child care quality on young children's development [Abridged]
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005
In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 364-375). New York: Guilford Press

An abridged reprint of 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 outcomes when child care center classes meet recommended standards for quality
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 1999
American Journal of Public Health, 89(7), 1072-1077

A study of how children's cognition, language and social competence are affected by child care meeting professional quality standards, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care

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Child outcomes when child care center classes meet recommended standards for quality [Abridged]
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005
In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 358-363). New York: Guilford Press

An abridged reprint of a study of how children's cognition, language and social competence are affected by child care meeting professional quality standards, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care

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Children's experiences in center-based child care as a function of teacher background and adult:child ratio
Howes, Carollee, 1997
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 43(3), 404-425

An examination of child care quality in relation to adult: child ratio and teacher education, using the Cost, Quality and Outcome (CQO) and Florida Quality Improvement study datasets

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Children's readiness for kindergarten in San Francisco: Results of the fall 2007 assessment in San Francisco Unified School District: Comprehensive report
San Francisco Unified School District, 2008
San Francisco: San Francisco Unified School District.

A study in San Francisco of: children's characteristics, skills, and readiness at kindergarten entry; family and early childhood education factors associated with readiness; children's transitions to kindergarten; and kindergarten teacher and classroom characteristics, all based on parent surveys and kindergarten teacher child assessments and surveys in a random sample of schools and classrooms

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Chronicity of maternal depressive symptoms, maternal sensitivity, and child functioning at 36 months [Abridged]
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005
In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 151-162). New York: Guilford Press

A study of the link between maternal depression and mother-child interaction as it relates to children’s functioning at 36 months, based on data from 89 percent of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care sample

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The Cost, Quality and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study
Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S.,
Denver, CO: Center for Research on Economic and Social Policy

A longitudinal study of the relationships between children's experiences in center-based care and school and their social, emotional and cognitive outcomes

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Developmental trajectories of preschool early literacy skills: A comparison of language-minority and monolingual-English children
Lonigan, Christopher J., 2013
Developmental Psychology, , 1-15

A comparison of the early literacy skills growth profiles over a preschool year of Spanish-speaking language-minority (LM) children and non-LM children from comparable socioeconomic backgrounds, based on data from 948 children, aged 37 to 60 months, from 30 Head Start classrooms

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Does amount of time spent in child care predict socioemotional adjustment during the transition to kindergarten? [Abridged]
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005
In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 297-317). New York: Guilford Press

An abridged reprint of a study of how children's socioemotional development is affected by the cumulative amount of time spent in nonmaternal care from birth to the preschool years, and the quality, type and other characteristics of child care, using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care

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Does quality of child care affect child outcomes at age 4 1/2? [Abridged]
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005
In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 337-357). New York: Guilford Press

An abridged reprint of a study exploring the causal nature of relations between child care quality and children's development, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care

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Early care experiences: Their relation to social skills and behavior in kindergarten
Smith, Amanda Potoczak, August 2009
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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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Early child care and children's peer interaction at 24 and 36 months [Abridged]
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005
In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 281-296). New York: Guilford Press

An abridged reprint of a study of how time spent in child care, child care quality, and availability of peers relate to children's peer social competence at 23 and 36 months, using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care

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Early child care and mother-child interaction from 36 months through first grade
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003
Infant Behavior & Development, 26(3), 345-370

A study of the relationship between early child care experiences in a child's first 3 years of life and mother-child interaction through the child's transition to school

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Early child care and mother-child interaction from 36 months through first grade [Abridged]
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005
In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 246-258). New York: Guilford Press

A study of early child care, with respect to child care quality, stability, and amount, in the first 3 years of life as predictors of qualities of mother-child interaction across children’s transition to school

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