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10 years post-Neurons to Neighborhoods: What's at stake and what matters in child care?
Phillips, Deborah A., October 19, 2010
Paper presented at the Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of CCDBG

A discussion of the relationship between the quality of child care environments and child stress, health, and developmental outcomes, and a call for an increase in compensation and training for child care workers

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2008-09 kindergarten screening results and voluntary prekindergarten (VPK) education program: 2009-10 fact sheet
Florida. Department of Education, 2010
Tallahassee: Florida, Department of Education.

A presentation of results from an assessment of children’s school readiness, with a focus on children’s emergent literacy skills, based on data on children who attended, voluntary prekindergarten, non-voluntary prekindergarten, or did not attend prekindergarten

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2009-10 evaluation report: Child Development Education Pilot Program (CDEPP)
South Carolina Education Oversight Committee, February, 2010
Columbia: South Carolina Education Oversight Committee.

Highlights of findings from an evaluation of the fourth year of the Child Development Education Pilot Program (CDEPP), South Carolina's early childhood education program to improve the school readiness of children in poverty

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2009-2010 implementation & expansion of the Child Development Education Pilot Program (CDEPP): Evaluation report
South Carolina Education Oversight Committee, 01 January, 2010
Columbia: South Carolina Education Oversight Committee.

Findings from an evaluation of the fourth year of the Child Development Education Pilot Program (CDEPP), South Carolina's early childhood education program to improve the school readiness of students in poverty, during the 2009-2010 program year

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2010 Maine Children’s Growth Council report: School readiness
Maine Children's Alliance, 2010
Augusta: Maine, Children's Growth Council.

A profile of families, communities, early childhood education and care programs, and schools in Maine and their influence on children’s school readiness

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ACF/OPRE report: Data tables for FACES 2006 Head Start children go to kindergarten report
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

Data tables from a profile of the development, families, and home and school environments of kindergarten children who had entered Head Start in the fall of 2006, based on data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2006 (FACES 2006)

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ACF/OPRE report: Data tables for FACES 2006 A second year in Head Start report
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

Data tables from a profile of the development, families, and home environments of children participating in their second year of Head Start who had entered the program at age 3 in the fall of 2006, based on spring 2008 data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2006 (FACES 2006)

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ACF-OPRE report: Data tables for FACES 2006 A year in Head Start report
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, October 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

Data tables from a profile of the characteristics of Head Start children and families and their home and Head Start classroom environments from fall 2006 through spring 2007, including children's cognitive, physical, and socioemotional development, and Head Start classroom curricula and activities, based on data collected from a sample of 60 Head Start programs, 135 centers, 410 classrooms, 365 teachers, and 3,315 children and their parents

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ACF/OPRE report: Head Start children go to kindergarten
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A profile of the development, families, and home and school environments of kindergarten children who had entered Head Start in the fall of 2006, based on data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2006 (FACES 2006)

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ACF-OPRE report: A second year in Head Start: Characteristics and outcomes of children who entered the program at age three
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, December 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A profile of the development, families, and home environments of children participating in their second year of Head Start who had entered the program at age 3 in the fall of 2006, based on spring 2008 data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2006 (FACES 2006)

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ACF-OPRE report: A year in Head Start: Children, families and programs
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, October, 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A profile of the characteristics of Head Start children and families and their home and Head Start classroom environments from fall 2006 through spring 2007, including children's cognitive, physical, and socioemotional development, and Head Start classroom curricula and activities, based on data collected from a sample of 60 Head Start programs, 135 centers, 410 classrooms, 365 teachers, and 3,315 children and their parents

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Achievement of children in the early years foundation stage profile
Great Britain. Department for Education. School Analysis and Research Division, September 2010
(Research Report DFE-RR034). Runcorn, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Education.

Findings from an annual assessment of students achievement at the end of their participation in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), based on data for all children who attended the program from 2007 through 2009

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Adults' imagination and young children's experiences of quality in early years education [Special issue]
Munn, Penny, March 2010
International Journal of Early Years Education, 18(1)

A special issue of the International Journal of Early Years Education, focusing on the adult use of imagination to create social spaces for young children

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Advancing early literacy learning for all children: Implications of the NELP report for dual-language learners
Gutierrez, Kris D., May, 2010
Educational Researcher, 39(4), 334-339

A discussion of the implications of the findings of National Early Literacy Panel for the early education of children who are dual language learners

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Advancing the language skills of young Latino children: Fresh evidence: What works
Bridges, Margaret, 2010
Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, Institute of Human Development, New Journalism on Latino Children.

An overview of research on the relationship of preschool education to the English language development of Latino children

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Advantages of gardening as a form of physical activity in an after-school program
Phelps, Joshua, December, 2010
Journal of Extension, 48(6), 1-7

A study of the relationship between participation in a Cooperative Extension Service after school gardening program and the self-reported physical activity levels of children, based on data from 31 children in third through fifth grade in Oklahoma

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Aligning research and policy on social-emotional and academic competence for young children
Nadeem, Erum, September 2010
Early Education and Development, 21(5), 765-779

A commentary on the ability of both historical and contemporary educational policies to promote an holistic approach to the development of social, emotional, and academic competencies in young children

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Alphabet and phonological awareness: Can it be enhanced in the early childhood setting?
McLachlan, Claire, 2010
International Research in Early Childhood Education, 1(1), 84-94

A proposal to use professional development to increase teachers' understandings of both the alphabet principle and phonological awareness and to implement them both within a holistic curriculum and within the context of children’s play, based on literacy research conducted in New Zealand

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Antecedents and correlates of the popular-aggressive phenomenon in elementary school
Rodkin, Philip C., May/June 2010
Early Child Development and Care, 81(3), 837-850

A study of the relationship between popular-aggressive behavior in grades 3 through 6 and cognitive functioning, maternal sensitivity, and participation in child care through age 4.5 from a secondary analysis of data from 1022 children

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The AppleTree approach to school readiness: A case study using a longitudinal population-referenced evaluation approach
Ramey, Craig T., 2010
Washington, DC: AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation.

Findings from a study of the quality of AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation prekindergarten classrooms, of participants' cognitive development, and of the relationship of participants' cognitive development to years of program participation

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Arts enrichment and school readiness for children at risk
Brown, Eleanor D., Q1 2010
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 25(1), 112-124

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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Assessing children's needs
Enz, Billie, 2010
In Promoting early reading: Research, resources, and best practices (pp. 105-123). New York: The Guilford Press

A discussion of select issues central to assessment in early care and education that includes conventional testing as a complement of informal assessment practices and a case study of one teacher's efforts to coordinate the results of multiple assessments for planning decisions

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Assessing self-regulation: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
Bandy, Tawana, October 2010
(Publication No. 2010-23). Washington, DC: Child Trends.

A discussion of self-regulation and role out-of-school time programs can play in measuring and building the capacity for self-regulation among children and youth

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Assessing stress in children and youth: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
Terzian, Mary, October 2010
(Publication No. 2010-22). Washington, DC: Child Trends.

A discussion of stress and the role out-of-school time programs can play in measuring and reducing stress among children and youth

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Assessment of quality preschool programming
Williams, Jessica Carfolite, 2010
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of South Carolina, Columbia

A study of the associations between classroom quality and both children's behavioral and language development, based on data collected from a random sample of 126 children from 50 South Carolina preschools

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