2010 comprehensive community assessment: Head Start programs: Whom do we serve?
A summary of an examination of the characteristics of children and families served by Head Start in Denver, Colorado
Fact Sheets & Briefs
2010 comprehensive community assessment: Overview of children, families, and language groups: The Denver community context
A summary of an examination of the characteristics of children and families in Denver, Colorado
Fact Sheets & Briefs
2010 comprehensive community assessment: Reaching out to the low income families and children in the neighborhoods: Early Head Start and Head Start eligible populations
A summary of an examination of the characteristics of the Head Start-eligible population in Denver, Colorado
Fact Sheets & Briefs
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
Reports & Papers
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
Reports & Papers
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
Executive Summary
The Abbott preschool program: Fifth year report on enrollment and budget: A report of the Abbott Indicators Project
A study of the Abbott preschool program?s overall enrollment, overall budget, and its placement of children with disabilities, and a study of Head Start enrollment in the low income Abbott districts of New Jersey
Reports & Papers
Abuse and neglect in nonparental child care: A risk assessment
A study evaluating the validity of risk factors typically associated with child abuse and neglect in nonparental child care settings
Reports & Papers
"Academic redshirting" in kindergarten: Prevalence, patterns, and implications
We use two nationally representative data sets to estimate the prevalence of kindergarten "redshirting"-- the decision to delay a child's school entry. We find that between 4% and 5.5% of children delay kindergarten, a lower number than typically reported in popular and academic accounts. Male, White, and high-SES children are most likely to delay kindergarten, and schools serving larger proportions
of White and high-income children have far higher rates of delayed entry. We find no evidence that children with lower cognitive or social abilities at age 4 are more likely to redshirt, suggesting parents' decisions to delay entry may be driven by concerns about children's relative position within a kindergarten cohort. Implications for policy are discussed. (author abstract)
Reports & Papers
Access to preschool education in the year before full-time school
An examination of variations in child care arrangements in Australia by child sociodemographic characteristics, based on data for 5,872 4- and 5-year-old children from two cohorts of the nationally representative Longitudinal Study of Australian Children
Reports & Papers
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.
Reports & Papers
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.
Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
Achievement in the first 2 years of school: Patterns and processes
A study of the influence of home and school factors on adaptation to school, using data from the Beginning School Study conducted in Baltimore in 1982
Reports & Papers
Adolescent emotional and behavioural outcomes of nonparental preschool childcare
An examination of the relationship between nonparental early child care and adolescent mental health outcomes, based on a secondary analysis of data from 197 participants in the Croydon Assessment of Learning Study in the United Kingdom
Reports & Papers
Advancing the language skills of young Latino children: Fresh evidence: What works
An overview of research on the relationship of preschool education to the English language development of Latino children
Fact Sheets & Briefs
African American preschoolers' language, emergent literacy skills, and use of African American English: A complex relation
An examination of the relation between Head Start African American preschoolers' use of African American English and their language and emergent literacy skills
Reports & Papers
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
Reports & Papers
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
Reports & Papers
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
Reports & Papers
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
Reports & Papers
After-school programs for low-income children: Promise and challenges
A study of after school programs for low-income children in terms of demand and supply, program activities, sponsoring and supporting organizations, and funding, based on information from the ongoing evaluation of the after school program initiative Making the Most of Out-of-School Time (MOST)
Other
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
Fact Sheets & Briefs
After-school pursuits: An examination of outcomes in the San Francisco Beacon Initiative: Executive summary
A summary of a program evaluation of the San Francisco Beacon Initiative (SFBI), a community-based after school program
Executive Summary
Age 2: Findings from the 2-year-old follow-up of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
A description of the demographic characteristics, early childhood development, maternal attachment, nonparental care experiences, and father involvement of two-year-old children, based on data from the nationally representative 2-year-old follow-up of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
Reports & Papers
Age and schooling effects on emergent literacy and early reading skills
A longitudinal study examining age and schooling on emergent literacy and early reading skills, based on a sample of 337 children from low-income backgrounds
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