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
Assisted housing and the educational attainment of children
A study on the effects of housing assistance on the educational attainment of children, based on the longitudinal following of all participants in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
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Behavior problems in African American boys and girls attending Head Start programs in violent neighborhoods
An examination of behavioral problems, and their severity, exhibited by African American children attending a Head Start program in a violent neighborhood, based on a sample of 312 mothers of Head Start children in the Washington, D.C.-metro area, who assessed their children using the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
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Celebrating cultural and linguistic diversity in Head Start
A descriptive study of cultural and linguistic groups and their distribution within the Head Start population, Head Start services developed to address the needs of children and families from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and challenges faced by Head Start programs as they address the needs of an increasingly diverse population
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Child care arrangements for children under five: Variation across states
A study of the primary child care arrangements of children under five whose mothers are employed, as well as of the variations in patterns of child care arrangements by state, by the child's age, and by the income status of the child's family.
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Child care expenses of America's families
A study of the child care expenses of working families with children under age 13, with particular attention to low-income families.
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Child care patterns of school-age children with employed mothers
An examination of variations in out-of-school time child care arrangements used by families with working mothers, based on data from the 1997 National Survey of America's Families (NSAF)
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Children's social and cognitive development and child-care quality: Testing for differential associations related to poverty, gender, or ethnicity
A study of the influence of poverty, minority ethnic background, gender, and parental authoritarian beliefs on the relationship between child care quality and children’s developmental outcomes
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A comparison of developmental gains for preschool children with disabilities in inclusive and self-contained classrooms
An investigation of the effects of inclusive and self-contained preschool education on young children's developmental outcomes, examining the effects of school day length and type of program on socioemotional development
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Can starting summer-born children earlier at infant school improve their National Curriculum results?
An investigation of the effect of the length of schooling for children who were born later than their peers as compared with the effect of their age on their National Curriculum scores
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Emotional expressiveness during peer conflicts: A predictor of social maladjustment among high-risk preschoolers
A short-term longitudinal inquiry into the correlation between emotional processes and children’s social functioning in preschool, based on a sample of 60 four- to five-year old children from eight Head Start classrooms
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Evaluation of Head Start Family Child Care Demonstration: Final report [Executive summary]
A summary of a study determining if family child care homes meet Head Start Program Performance Standards, and a comparison of outcomes of children in family child care homes with those of children in center-based care
Executive Summary
An experimental evaluation of an intervention to stimulate written language awareness in preschool children from low-income households
An inquiry into the relationship between hearing a book being read and the development of literacy skills, based on a sample of 30 children aged 2- to 5- years old enrolled in a Head Start program
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From pre-school to school: A review of the research literature
An overview of research studies on the influence of children's preschool participation on their academic outcomes and well-being later in life
Other
The hours that children under five spend in child care: Variation across states
A study of the number of hours that children under five spent in child care while their mothers were at work and the variations in child care use by state, by the child's age, and by the income status of the child's family.
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Informal Caregiving Among the White Mountain Apache and its Impact on Child Health and Well Being
An ethnographic study of informal kith and kin care among the White Mountain Apaches, and the effects of child care practices on child health, with an exploration of the implications of welfare reform for parent employment and child care. The project has three basic components: (1) patterns of caregiving; (2) the practice of alternative caregiving and health related behaviors; and (3) community attitudes.
Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
Injuries in child care centers: Gender-environment interactions
A longitudinal investigation into the role of children’s age, gender, and child care environment in predicting injuries, based on a sample of 360 preschool children aged 2- to 6-years old in four urban child care centers
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An investment in children and families: Years 9 & 10 longitudinal study report
Findings from Year 9 and Year 10 of the Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) longitudinal study, based on a sample of 868 children in grades 5 through 7 who participated in an early childhood program and received public assistance
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A longitudinal research report on the early childhood development program: The half-day child development program for four-year-olds, 1997-98
A longitudinal study through grade one of the effects on academic achievement of a South Carolina half-day child development program for at risk four-year-old children, based on assessment score comparisons with nonparticipants
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Parents' and teachers' beliefs about children's school readiness in a high-need community
An investigation using a survey designed for this study to examine the beliefs of parents and preschool and kindergarten teachers in terms of what constitutes school readiness for kindergarten children at school entry
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Preschool aged girls exposed and non-exposed to domestic violence: Differences in behavior problems, play processes, and pretend themes
An examination of the impact of exposure to domestic violence on the behavioral outcomes and play behaviors of preschool aged girls, based on a sample of 30 four-to five-year old girls attending a Head Start program in Northern California
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Preschool experience: A facilitator of very low birthweight infants' development?
An examination of the effects of preschool participation on very low birthweight children's academic achievements and social competency as measured at age seven and compared with the achievements and competencies of normal birthweight children and very low birthweight children who did not attend preschool
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''Quality'' child care?: Assessing the impact on child outcomes
An examination of the influence of the quality of child care on children’s outcomes, using information from the 1995 Cost, Quality and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers (CQCO) and the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development Study on Early Child Care (NICHD-SECC)
Other
Relating quality of center-based child care to early cognitive and language development longitudinally
A longitudinal study of the relationship between center-based child care and children’s early cognitive and language development, using a sample of 89 African-American children in the first three years of life
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The relation of child care to cognitive and language development
An examination of the relationship between early child care experiences and cognitive and language development among 1,364 children, from 10 sites in the United States, enrolled at birth and followed until age 3 to examine cognitive development, language production, and language comprehension as a function of quality and amount of child care
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