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Afterschool advantage: Powerful new learning opportunities A book that argues for the evolution and expansion of after school programs to include more engaging and supportive content for children's learning and development |
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Afterschool: Creating pathways to college A proposal for the use of after school programs to encourage students post-secondary academic plans and achievement |
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Afterschool must no longer be an afterthought A conclusion to a book that argues for the evolution and expansion of after school programs to include more engaging and supportive content for children's learning and development |
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Afterschool: An opportunity to develop 21st century skills A discussion of the use of after school programs as a platform for the preparation of students to be competitive members of the workforce within the global economy |
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After-school program engagement: Links to child competence and program quality and content A two-year study of variability in after school program-level engagement, and its association with both the social and academic competence of participants, and the process quality and content of programs, based on data from 141 children in 9 after school programs in a disadvantaged city in the United States |
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Assessing the effectiveness of Tennessee’s pre-kindergarten program: First interim report A longitudinal evaluation of Tennessee’s prekindergarten program; based on a comparison of annual assessments of 5 cohorts of children who attended prekindergarten programs between 1999-2000 and the 2003-2004 school year with the annual assessments of children who did not |
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Assessing the effectiveness of Tennessee’s pre-kindergarten program: First interim report [Executive summary] A summary of a longitudinal evaluation of Tennessee’s prekindergarten program; based on a comparison of annual assessments of 5 cohorts of children who attended prekindergarten programs between 1999-2000 and the 2003-2004 school year with the annual assessments of children who did not |
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Assessing the effectiveness of Tennessee’s pre-kindergarten program: Preliminary report An investigation into the academic achievement of participants in Tennessee’s prekindergarten program, and an exploration of program characteristics that promote participants’ short- and long-term academic achievement, based on a comparison of assessments of prekindergarten participants from the 1998-1999 through 2000-2001 program years with assessments of a random sample of children who did not participate in a prekindergarten program |
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Assessing the effectiveness of Tennessee’s pre-kindergarten program: Preliminary report [Executive summary] A summary of an investigation into the academic achievement of participants in Tennessee’s prekindergarten program, and an exploration of program characteristics that promote participants’ short- and long-term academic achievement, based on a comparison of assessments of prekindergarten participants from the 1998-1999 through 2000-2001 program years with assessments of a random sample of children who did not participate in a prekindergarten program |
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Assessment and decision-making in early childhood education and intervention An account of the use of an inductive-experimental teaching assessment model to improve children’s letter recognition scores at a Head Start center |
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Building better communities for children: Community implementation and evaluation of the Australian Early Development Index An overview of the implementation of the Australian Early Development Index (AEDI) |
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Child care Quality Rating and Improvement System: Considerations for development in Washington State A presentation of background information regarding the phasing in of Washington State’s Quality Rating System (QRS) to assess, improve, and communicate the quality of individual child care sites through tiered ranking and reimbursement |
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Context matters: The interrelatedness of early literacy skills, developmental health, and community demographics A population-level study of the relationships between school-level early literacy rates, developmental health of the population, and demographic factors, in 23 schools from one school district in British Columbia, Canada |
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Curriculum-based emergent literacy assessment in early childhood A discussion of curriculum-based assessment processes for identifying young children's emergent literacy skills, particularly for at risk children who struggle with certain tasks in terms of emergent literacy |
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Discussion and intensity of kindergarten attendance and secondary school track choice A longitudinal investigation of the links between kindergarten attendance, duration and intensity and children’s outcomes in primary and secondary school, based on data of 1,332 West-German children followed from age 2 until 14 who participated in a larger national study |
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Discussion and intensity of kindergarten attendance and secondary school track choice [Executive summary] A summary of a longitudinal investigation of the links between kindergarten attendance, duration and intensity and children’s outcomes in primary and secondary school, based on data of 1,332 West-German children followed from age 2 until 14 who participated in a larger national study |
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The early childhood disaster risk index 2007: Vulnerability and emergency preparedness needs of the early childhood sector in eleven states at high risk of hurricanes, earthquakes, or both Indicators of child care and other early childhood services' vulnerability to and preparedness for risks posed by disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, and volcanos and emergency preparedness in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas |
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Early learning standards: Results from a national survey to document trends in state-level policies and practices An exploration of the development and implementation of early learning guidelines, outlining the expectations for what preschool children should know and be able to do prior to entering kindergarten, based on data from a national survey |
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Early school success: Equity and access for diverse learners: Executive summary A summary of papers presented at a symposium dedicated to effective and promising educational practices for diverse learners from prekindergarten to third grade |
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Evaluation of the Early Literacy Intervention Grant Program: Final report An overview of Indiana’s Early Literacy Intervention Grant Program (ELIGP), including funding and program information, implementation strategies, and assessment data for the 2006-2007 academic year, based on a survey of grant coordinators and information gathered on 5,733 students from 85 schools |
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Factors related to advance course-taking patterns, persistence in science technology engineering and mathematics, and the role of out-of-school time programs: A literature review A review of studies on factors that influence students' taking advanced courses in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and the role of out of school time programs in students' persistence in STEM subjects |
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Full-day kindergarten offsets negative effects of poverty on state tests An examination of the influences of poverty and full- or half-day kindergarten attendance on the third grade English and Mathematics achievement of 4,411 Indiana children in a three-year cohort study in an urban school district |
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Giving children a better start: Preschool attendance and school-age profiles A study of the relationship between preprimary education experiences and the educational attainment of children ages 7 to 16 in Uruguay, based on data collected from a representative household survey |
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Health and nutrition as a foundation for success in school A discussion of the influence of children’s nutrition and health on their development and academic success |
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High school outcomes for students in a public Montessori program A comparison of the standardized test scores and grade point averages of groups of Milwaukee-area high school students with preschool through fifth grade educations in either Montessori or traditional schools |
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