Associations between center-based care accreditation status and the early educational outcomes of children in the child welfare system
A study of the relationship between child care center accreditation and the developmental and early academic outcomes of children in the child welfare system receiving child care subsidies, based on data from two groups of 82 low income three- and four-year old children, one group in the child welfare system and one not, enrolled in community-based early care and education centers in Miami-Dade County, Florida
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Child care in poor communities: Early learning effects of type, quality, and stability
A study on the influence of child care type, quality, and stability on the social and cognitive development of the preschool children of low-income single mothers
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Child care in poor communities: Early learning effects of type, quality, and stability
A longitudinal analysis of the effects of child care type, quality, and stability on the social and cognitive development of preschool children of low-income single mothers
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Children's experiences in center-based child care as a function of teacher background and adult:child ratio
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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Cognitive flexibility, approaches to learning, and academic school readiness in Head Start preschool children
A study of the relationship between cognitive flexibility and a measure of pre-academic knowledge indicative of success in the early school years, and an examination of the mediating potentials of attention, persistence, and both attitudes towards and motivation for learning, based on measures of 191 children in Head Start classrooms
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The Collier County Early Literacy Partnership for Educational Success: 2004-2005: Year 1 implementation and evaluation report
Findings from the first year of the implementation and program evaluation of the Early Literacy and Learning Model (ELLM) and the Skills-based Educational Experiences Delivery System (ELLM/SEEDS) programs to improve children's early literacy skills in Collier County, Florida, during the 2004-2005 year
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The Collier County Early Literacy Partnership for Educational Success: 2006-2007: Year 3 implementation and evaluation report
Findings from an implementation and program evaluation of the Early Literacy and Learning Model (ELLM) and the Skills-based Educational Experiences Delivery System (ELLM/SEEDS) programs to improve children's early literacy skills in Collier County, Florida, during the 2006-2007 year
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Community child care inclusion: The development of two children
An analysis of the progression of children with severe disabilities within a child care setting using a play-based curriculum
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Conceptualizations of readiness and the content of early learning standards: The intersection of policy and research?
An analysis of 46 state-level early education standards documents to investigate the specific areas of development addressed in order to determine how different states conceptualize school readiness
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Contributions of emergent literacy skills to name writing, letter writing, and spelling in preschool children
A study of the relationship between preschool children's emergent literacy skills and their name writing, letter writing, and spelling skills, based on data from 296 children 4- and 5-years-old at 30 private preschools and both public and private child care centers in north Florida
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Can quality improvement system improve childcare site performance in school readiness?
A comparison of growth in children's school readiness over three years in child care sites using a Quality Improvement System (QIS) versus non-QIS sites, based on data from 79 children in 46 sites in Palm Beach County, Florida
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Developmentally appropriate emergent literacy activities for young children: Adapting the Early Literacy and Learning Model
A test of the efficacy of an adaptation for preschool classrooms of the Early Literacy and Learning Model (ELLM) in the development of alphabet recognition skills among a sample of 8 preschool children
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Differential effects of high-quality child care
An analysis of data collected from the Infant Health and Development Program examining the differential causal effects of access to high quality child care for at risk children who would otherwise have participated in one of three child care options: no non-maternal care, home-based non-maternal care, and center-based care
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The early developmental competencies and school readiness of low-income, immigrant children: Influences of generation, race/ethnicity, and national origins
A study of the socioemotional, behavioral, and cognitive development of first-generation, second-generation, and non-immigrant children, by immigrant status, race, and both country and region of origin, based on a sample of 2,914 subsidy-receiving Miami-area 4-year-old children attending child care or preschool
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Early Learning Coalition of Duval report: 2005-06
An account of participant experiences in the Guiding Start of Duval initiative, a three-phase initiative to improve the quality of early childhood education and care programs in Duval County, Florida, during the 2005-2006 year, including information on children's school readiness, the development of a quality rating and improvement system (QRIS), and community organizational support
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Early Learning Coalition of Duval report: 2006-07
An account of participant experiences in the Guiding Start of Duval initiative, a three-phase initiative to improve the quality of early childhood education and care programs in Duval County, Florida, during the 2006-2007 year, including information on children's school readiness, the development of a quality rating and improvement system (QRIS), and community organizational support
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Early Learning Coalition of Duval report: 2007-08 final report
An account of participant experiences in the Guiding Start of Duval initiative, a three-phase initiative to improve the quality of early childhood education and care programs in Duval County, Florida, during the 2007-2008 year, including information on children's school readiness, the development of a quality rating and improvement system (QRIS), and community organizational support
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Early Learning Coalition of Duval report: 2008-09
An account of participant experiences in the Guiding Start of Duval initiative, a three-phase initiative to improve the quality of early childhood education and care programs in Duval County, Florida, during the 2008-2009 year, including information on children's school readiness, the development of a quality rating and improvement system (QRIS), and community organizational support
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Early Learning Coalition of Duval report 2009-10
An examination of the school readiness skills and gains of children who attend early care and learning centers that participate in Guiding Stars of Duval, an initiative to improve the quality of early learning and care services in Jacksonville, Florida, based on pre- and posttest assessments of participants and public school kindergarten readiness administrative data
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Early Learning Coalition of Duval report 2010-11
An examination of the school readiness skills and gains of children who attend early care and learning centers that participate in Guiding Stars of Duval, an initiative to improve the quality of early learning and care services in Jacksonville, Florida, based on pre- and posttest assessments of participants and public school kindergarten readiness administrative data
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Early Learning Coalition of Duval report 2011-12
An examination of the school readiness skills and gains of children who attend early care and learning centers that participate in Guiding Stars of Duval, an initiative to improve the quality of early learning and care services in Jacksonville, Florida, based on pre- and posttest assessments of participants and on public school kindergarten readiness administrative data
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Early literacy and early numeracy: The value of including early literacy skills in the prediction of numeracy development
A study of the relationship between the early preschool measures of print knowledge, vocabulary, and phonological awareness, and the measures of numeracy skills a year later, in a sample of 69 children enrolled in 10 Florida preschools
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Early writing deficits in preschoolers with oral language difficulties
A comparison of the emergent writing outcomes of children with and without language impairment, and an examination of the correlation between emergent writing outcomes and nonverbal IQ deficits, based on data from 293 preschool children who participated in a writing intervention in various public and private preschools and child care centers in Northern Florida
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Economic deprivation and early childhood development
A study of the impact of poverty and poverty correlates such as ethnicity, maternal education, neighborhood conditions and single parenthood on child cognitive and behavioral development, using longitudinal data from the Infant Health and Development program
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Educare implementation study findings--August 2012
Findings from an implementation study of Educare, a full-day, full-year high-quality early care and education program for at risk children from birth to age 5, that examine children's school readiness, vocabulary, and socioemotional outcomes and classroom quality, based on data collected at 12 programs from the fall 2007 through spring 2011 school years
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